Hey, as always when I run into something I have trouble fixing I come back here for help.
So our entire home network started running very slowly a few days ago, extremely unresponsive and unusable to the point you could just say it doesn't work at all most of the time. Found out it only happened when my fiancees laptop was running, I put wireshark on it and found there is a lot of large packets outbound and inbound from ip address 204.79.197.213, turns out that is a microsoft server, possibly tied to edge or bing (she uses neither). Everything is up to date on her system. If I use the prompt ipconfig/release followed by ipconfig/renew and watch wireshark, usually for a few minutes there is no communication with this ip address, but as soon as it starts showing up the entire home network will slow back down to a halt. In order to even be on this forum I have to deactivate her computer from networking by using the ipconfig/release command, you could also just disable her wi fi but that is less convenient. I have researched this and found one other person who had exactly the same problem, here is the link. Look at the fifth post by OP user "MsRadell"
http://www.tenforums.com/performanc...ive-sessions-open-immediately-after-boot.html
I created firewall rules blocking that ip inbound and outbound, but the rules alone did not work, and the only way I was able to block it was by also checking "Outbound connections that do not match a rule are blocked" under the "private profile" settings in the firewall, this also makes it so she is unable to visit websites though, so that is useless. Her laptop is pretty useless until this gets fixed. Hope someone can help me out with this, thanks in advance.
So our entire home network started running very slowly a few days ago, extremely unresponsive and unusable to the point you could just say it doesn't work at all most of the time. Found out it only happened when my fiancees laptop was running, I put wireshark on it and found there is a lot of large packets outbound and inbound from ip address 204.79.197.213, turns out that is a microsoft server, possibly tied to edge or bing (she uses neither). Everything is up to date on her system. If I use the prompt ipconfig/release followed by ipconfig/renew and watch wireshark, usually for a few minutes there is no communication with this ip address, but as soon as it starts showing up the entire home network will slow back down to a halt. In order to even be on this forum I have to deactivate her computer from networking by using the ipconfig/release command, you could also just disable her wi fi but that is less convenient. I have researched this and found one other person who had exactly the same problem, here is the link. Look at the fifth post by OP user "MsRadell"
http://www.tenforums.com/performanc...ive-sessions-open-immediately-after-boot.html
I created firewall rules blocking that ip inbound and outbound, but the rules alone did not work, and the only way I was able to block it was by also checking "Outbound connections that do not match a rule are blocked" under the "private profile" settings in the firewall, this also makes it so she is unable to visit websites though, so that is useless. Her laptop is pretty useless until this gets fixed. Hope someone can help me out with this, thanks in advance.