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Okay, so we got a new internet hookup recently. It worked great for a few days, but now I'm running into problems with it.
1. It takes forever just to access the connection.
2. The connection keeps dropping out unexpectedly; goto 1.
3. The data transfer speeds are hit and miss - sometimes it's much faster than the old connection, sometimes it gets so slow that Firefox was predicting a 2 hour wait to download a 100MB file!
Now, this is what has happened on my desktop PC. I changed my WiFi adapter to something more modern, but it hasn't solved the main problem.
I'm presently on my laptop, which, as it happens, has accessed the connection easily, is still on, and has fast speeds - and I saw mum on her laptop earlier with no problems.
So - what would cause this issue on my desktop only, while other machines are fine? I even have both laptop and desktop running right now, and the desktop is still saying the connection is down, despite my laptop being on AW with no problems.
The desktop is running Windows 8.1 - and had no problems initially. Both mine and mum's laptops are running Windows 7.
Colour me stumped!
1. It takes forever just to access the connection.
2. The connection keeps dropping out unexpectedly; goto 1.
3. The data transfer speeds are hit and miss - sometimes it's much faster than the old connection, sometimes it gets so slow that Firefox was predicting a 2 hour wait to download a 100MB file!
Now, this is what has happened on my desktop PC. I changed my WiFi adapter to something more modern, but it hasn't solved the main problem.
I'm presently on my laptop, which, as it happens, has accessed the connection easily, is still on, and has fast speeds - and I saw mum on her laptop earlier with no problems.
So - what would cause this issue on my desktop only, while other machines are fine? I even have both laptop and desktop running right now, and the desktop is still saying the connection is down, despite my laptop being on AW with no problems.
The desktop is running Windows 8.1 - and had no problems initially. Both mine and mum's laptops are running Windows 7.
Colour me stumped!