Possible AOL problem?

[dinkimoo]

I don't think it's spyware that's the problem - I have both Ad-aware and Spybot - Search & Destroy and use these on a regular basis. I also did a virus scan recently and I have Kerio Personal Firewall installed. I think maybe AOL or BT are blocking well known torrent programs or cutting off the connection when certain ports are used.... but it's just a guess. I had lots of problems with BT before as well...

DID u ever try defragmenting ur drives? or diskcleanup or scandisk?

I thought doing these would just free up space? How would this help with the AOL/bittorrent problem?

Also, just wondering, what ISPs do you use?

 

[boost]

I have now got rid of alot of the problems (downloads dropping off, not being able to close aol and windows xp after running torrent clients, etc.) after uninstalling Norton Internet Security !
Depending on the torrent I can download at approaching 100kb/s, surf the web at the same time and close down every thing cleanly when I am done.

 

[Praetor]

My problem is that AOL stops responding under load. If I'm simply using it to browse it runs fine however if I load up Kazzaa and start downloading files, after a while my download rate goes to zero and if I attempt to access a page nothing happens. This could happen after 30 mins or 3 hours.

Sounds like an ISP cap on the connection-count or connection-rate.

I try to close AOL and it says "AOL is not responding" and I have to do it via the task bar

Of course it could just as easily be your system not being able to keep up with the connection-count ... looking at your specs I wouldnt think so though....

*just realizes he answred a 3 month old post*

after uninstalling Norton Internet Security !

Its not so much NIS that's a problem but the fact that for NIS to do it's job (as per any other firewall), it has to inspect every packet and analyze every connection .... and there are lots of them

 

[boxerman19]

I had the same problem with aol and kazza and got told i did not have enough ram so i went out and got some more and i have not had any problems since,

and i dont log off from my aol it is connected 24/7, and i download all day and night too.

If it aint your ram then try uninstalling kazza and reinstalling it might be damaged as i have had that problem as well