I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this so please tell me if it needs to go under a different topic.
My web pages won't load on all my browsers. If it does load (50% of the time), it'll take a couple minutes to load the page without all of the pictures and replace them with the missing image icon. A big portion of the web pages that do load look like a word document with all of the words in times new roman without all of the website design. Youtube is the only site that loads but takes a couple minutes to load. The problem also extends to my applications such as spotify and itunes. They can't connect to their own respective services. This problem is exclusive to my pc, as my laptop surfs the web like nothing ever happened (typing from it now). Also, my steam game download speed had this weird trend where it started at 100kb/s then dropped to 90kb/s then 80kb/s then 70kb/s every second until it hit 10kb/s. It then jumped back up to 100kb/s and repeated this about 5 times until it just rose to a steady 1.7mb/s. Just something I thought was worth noting. My download speed was 1.9mb/s on steam before this problem. Thank you for reading through this lump of text and any help is appreciated!
do you have any addone/extensions installed like "HTTPS everywhere" or are you using a VPN?
What browser are you using, is it a beta version?
Have you tried doing a virus scan and clearing your browser cache?
Are you in Australia?
I'm sorry ... sometimes I can be a real jerk
oh .... I just now saw you have a koala bear avatar....
now I feel bad
I think I do have https because my url's have https in them along with a lock icon in front when I use chrome. I remember doing something with https a while ago so I'm pretty sure I got it. Its not in my extensions though. I used a vpn before but unsubscribed and uninstalled a while ago. I'm using the latest non beta chrome and ran avast pro virus full scans multiple times and it said my comp was clean although there were some files that it said it couldn't search through. I cleaned my browsers using CCleaner and it actually made the problem worse. My loads were taking longer than before.
No I live in 'merica lol. I think the koala was a windows 7 default pic and I just used it.
When was the last time you pulled maintenance on your system and cleaned up your browsers? ( If you say never, i will smack you with a shoe)
I recently cleaned my browsers with CCleaner hoping it would fix my problem but it just made my load speeds slower. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by maintenance on my system. I cleaned the registry with CCleaner as well multiple times if thats what you mean. (If its not you can atleast hit me with a slipper)
lol, You might look at your internet connection itself or if your using a wifi adapter. Click on your network symbol and choose open network and sharing center. It will bring up a popup. Click the blue lettering. Should bring up another popup the states wifi status click diagnose. Should be able to do the same thing with device manager.
A bunch of stuff calling home in your startup taskbar will cause issues also.
I have a wired connection to my router but I still checked my intel ethernet connection in device manager but the diagnose couldn't find anything wrong. However when I noticed when I was downloading steam games a little while ago, the download speed was all over the place. It usually rises to the normal 1.9mb/s in 5 seconds (10 at worst). But now it jumps all over from 1.4mb/s to 1mb/s to 800kb/s to 1mb/s to 1.3mb/s to some other random download speed. It does this for about 2-3 minutes into the download until it stays at the constant 1.9mb/s I always had. Do you know what that means by any chance? Thanks for sticking around!
I have steam, asusgpu tweak and nzxt kraken control in startup. I believe my startup is fine but thanks for the info. I'll keep that in mind in the future!
All my gaming downloads jump around on speeds. I dont consider it abnormal. Most likely a issue at the source.
Hmmm alright. I've just never had that happen to me before so I thought it was strange it first.
I'm suspecting AV/AM/FW may be causing the problem. However, it could be as simple as a bad DNS set up with the IPv4 protocols (in LAN properties). Or it could be an actual virus like a hard to detect rootkit or something. Then again, router issues may be the problem where I might ask if you're doing something like filter by MAC/IP since some routers can do that. (Ask me "what's a router" and I'd probably go full-bore troll.) Perhaps you're using a VPN? Or here's one! Have you tried browsing by IP address instead of a URL? (I'm not sure if you even know what I'm talking about.)
About all I can tell you is that CCleaner WON'T necessarily fix things since CCleaner is more for optimization of your OS and a very few apps (which does require some tweaking if you want CC to do the job better). Though as far as browser cache goes, here's a suggestion: try opening the browser and pressing ctrl-shift-del (3 keys pressed at the same time) to open the dialog box where you might try and empty it.
It's really impossible for me to guess what's going on here without more details since you may even be using a horrible ISP that is trying to tell you that you have reached your caps for the month!
Besides... that's what the Geek Squad and people like that are paid to do (in addition to other duties) -- troubleshoot.
Alright I checked my ipv4 protocols since this reply reminded me that I tweaked some things about a month ago and I noticed that I had it set to find a certain address. I changed it to find an address automatically and my internet is working fine again! Thanks for all your help and info! I'm not sure what I would've done if I couldn't fix this.
Alright my problem is solved. Thanks everyone for their help!