Internet connection laughably slow....

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Hi;

Pretty sure I know what the problem is here; but my hardware supplier
is adamant it can't be....

My old motherboard died, and so I bought a shiny new Asrock P4VM890,
and a nice new case; and put the old chip, ram and hard disk in it.

Booted up a treat, I installed the drivers off the CD the came with
it, and tried to connect to the internet through my LAN.

Nothing - or next to it - happened. I eventually found I did have a
connection, but it was ridiculously slow. Google's web page wold come
up very quickly, but when I clicked on news, it was as if, half way
down the page, the internet had forgotten that I was there. And it
would remain hung until it just timed out. I tested with my ISP's own
download speed test, and it worked out at about 0.4 kbps - should be
150 (okay - not exactly lightning, but that's what I've got).

Hardware supplier said "reinstall windows", despite my having run an
Ubuntu Live disk on it with the same result. Got a spare 40Gb hard
disk; reinstalled windows, and I have exactly the same problem. I'm
using the onboard LAN, so I put in an external PCI lan card; exactly
the same happened. I connect my laptop to the same network, and get a
perfectly acceptable download speed.

If I put both the PC and the laptop on the lan at the same time, both
of them crawl to a halt, and I have to re-boot the laptop, router etc.

Maybe I'm wrong - but I can't see how this can be anything but a
faulty motherboard in the new PC - everything else has been taken out
and checked (I've swapped the CPU with one from my office PC; and I've
taken out each Ram chip one at a time; I've even reset the CMOS in
case something interesting might have taken place!)

I'd really appreciate some advice, if poss......


Tim
 
Hi;

Pretty sure I know what the problem is here; but my hardware supplier
is adamant it can't be....

My old motherboard died, and so I bought a shiny new Asrock P4VM890,
and a nice new case; and put the old chip, ram and hard disk in it.

Booted up a treat, I installed the drivers off the CD the came with
it, and tried to connect to the internet through my LAN.

Nothing - or next to it - happened. I eventually found I did have a
connection, but it was ridiculously slow. Google's web page wold come
up very quickly, but when I clicked on news, it was as if, half way
down the page, the internet had forgotten that I was there. And it
would remain hung until it just timed out. I tested with my ISP's own
download speed test, and it worked out at about 0.4 kbps - should be
150 (okay - not exactly lightning, but that's what I've got).

Hardware supplier said "reinstall windows", despite my having run an
Ubuntu Live disk on it with the same result. Got a spare 40Gb hard
disk; reinstalled windows, and I have exactly the same problem. I'm
using the onboard LAN, so I put in an external PCI lan card; exactly
the same happened. I connect my laptop to the same network, and get a
perfectly acceptable download speed.

If I put both the PC and the laptop on the lan at the same time, both
of them crawl to a halt, and I have to re-boot the laptop, router etc.

Maybe I'm wrong - but I can't see how this can be anything but a
faulty motherboard in the new PC - everything else has been taken out
and checked (I've swapped the CPU with one from my office PC; and I've
taken out each Ram chip one at a time; I've even reset the CMOS in
case something interesting might have taken place!)

I'd really appreciate some advice, if poss......
Click to expand...

The fact the problem persists when you use an PCI LAN card and with a
fresh Windows install makes me think it is not a MB problem. I'm
assuming you're using a wired network? In which case, have you tried a
different port on your router? When your old motherboard died it might
have somehow sent a spike and damaged the port you are currently using.
Also, did you try a different cable between the computer and the router?

Other than that, can't think of much as it sounds like you've done
everything else I would have tried!
 
Thanks - yes, I've swapped the router port around, and I've used three
different cables. And I've tried each on the laptop as well, and in
each case, the laptop whizzes along, and the desktop - doesn't ;-(

What leads me to the MB is it's the only new thing in there; I'm
wondering if network connections go via a specific bus, or some such,
and that's where the problem is. At this rate, I'll have wasted so
much time, I'd have been better off buying a Dell!

Tim
 
... I bought a shiny new Asrock P4VM890 ... ....

What leads me to the MB is it's the only new thing in there; I'm
wondering if network connections go via a specific bus, or some such,
and that's where the problem is. At this rate, I'll have wasted so
much time, I'd have been better off buying a Dell!
Click to expand...

A Gigabyte motherboard should do...

(My personal impression is that Asrock boards have a considerable RMA
rate - but they are solid and stable if they work.)


Roy
 
Have you checked the event log for any warnings or errors after bootup?

Also, right mouse click on my network places, select the internet
connection, right mouse click, and select status. Mine says 100mbps. Click
around that window to see if there are any problems, mine displays some
status.

Check the drivers for anything yellow and check the network drivers for any
errors. Download the latest drivers for your MB and network card and update
everything.

-g
 
Thanks Geoff - I haven't checked the event log, but I've done the rest
(and all appeared to be working perfectly). I'll check the log
tonight.

Tim
 
Well, the event log seems okay - no big red marks - not since 2nd
September when apparently my CdRom had a "bad block". Otherwise,
there's nothing. I';m using the PC in question now. It downloads pages
that have, say 100kb of infor easily, but pages with picues, it gets
half way throughand hangs, big time. There was "one" error in the
event log - it said it had failed to connect to Windows Update. No
surprise there - I can't connect to windows update using IE7, o0r not
at any speed, anyway.

Tim
 
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