PC slows down online

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Rod Bishop

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For the second time in two years I rebuild a PC that works perfectly while off line but slows down to half speed when online.

THis one is a Vista PC but that's all the owners can afford. I do this for free, they pay for the operating system, this time $30 is all they can handel right now.

Everything downloaded, all updates from Microsoft are in and Flash player and Java are ready.

But when I go online to test the speed I set up my PC next to this one and click the mouse at the same time for a video test, like Wimp.com

Within 30 seconds the new PC is 5 seconds behind my PC. In 60 seconds the new pc is 13-15 second behind mine. The video is jerky but plays.

It's a 6 yeas old pc wiped clean and reinstall with Vista.

I don't need to be told to get a newer OS, more memory or a faster CPU, because both PCs are DELL and just alike on all points. I upped the display card to 256m just to see, but the faster card with more memory didn't help online speed. DSL is running at 8.0-10 and steady.

Mine works great on Vista.

What would make a system slow down so bad online when both systems are alike?

I'm tired
 
Lan driver, malware, bad motherboard.

Have you tried using a dedicated ethernet card?
 
Rod Bishop said:
I don't need to be told to get a newer OS, more memory or a faster CPU,
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What specs does it have, anyway?

Is the issue just with embedded video or do you get differences in speed tests (http://speedtest.net) and crap like that too? Video being jerky sounds more like a resource decoding issue than bandwidth or traffic related. What is the CPU utilization when this happens?
 
I installed a new linksys ethernet pci card but it seemed to make on line video worse, so I pulled it.

Everything works great except videos like Wimp.

The couple I'm trying to fix this for has an old PC with XP on it and the videos run fine. Their favorite site is Wimp. They are 80 and 83 years old, and I fixed them up with the XP system several years ago.

He is a retired Pilot but never used a PC until the XP system. She is older and never used a PC until the XP also.

They are happy with the old XP because local weather, news and Wimp is their daily use.

As a retired pilot, he needs to go the the FAA website to check the status, and update his health records, but XP will not let him access the FAA website, so Vista is the cheap door the FAA.

I guess I can give them the Vista system for the FAA and they can use the XP for Wimp.

I did a Dell checkup by PC tools yesterday and after three hours of testing and scanning, no errors were found with the Vista PC.
 
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