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I've got a bit of a strange issue. Hopefully someone here can shed some light on it for me. As Ive typed and typed this here, it got a bit long, but hopefully it all makes sense.
I've got 4 computers in my house, all listed in my signature. There is a WHS 2011 machine down in my basement, a desktop PC, a HTPC and a laptop. We also have a WD TV box and our 2 smart phones on the network. Recently we've had some problems / slowness loading IE pages, at first it seemed to be only Google which is our home page. The page would take minutes to load, and we got an error "waiting for Google' in the tab. We first noticed this with Google on our laptop because the laptop gets the most use during the week. But it seems to also happen on other pages.
Because we first experienced this on the laptop, I thought it was a wireless issue . So I unplugged the router & modem and restarted them, which seemed to fix things, but only for a short while and then the same problem started again. The past few days I've been using my desktop PC because of the issue on the laptop, and now the same issue is happening up here. So I'm thinking that it isn't WiFi related and it's more of an issue with my internet/network.
I tried doing a "ipconfig /flushdns" running as an administrator and also resetting the IE settings (tools, internet options, advanced, reset IE settings) thinking it was an IE issue. Again, each of those might have helped for a while, but eventually the same issues came back. Sometimes the page will load and other times it'll get to an "unable to display page" page. I've tried clicking on the "fix connection problems" button when that page comes up, but I get a message that the problem couldn't be fixed or that the problem is with the page that we're trying to reach, which is usually Google or eBay, so I don't think that either of those sites would have problems for days and days?? I've attached screen shots of the error pages below. I also ran CCleaner and a Malwarebytes scan. The Malwarebytes scan found and removed a handful of files on both my desktop and laptop. And again, maybe a bit better, but the slowness is still there.
Not sure if this is related at all, but figured I'd mention it. A few months ago I got rid of my leased TWC modem and picked up a Motorola SB6141 modem. I've attached a screen shot of the modem settings page below. It's been a while since I looked at the modem settings page so I'm not 100% sure what the levels should be at. And with this new modem and the DOCSIS it seems a bit more complicated. Hopefully someone here can look over the numbers to verify they're at good levels. And I also have a PCT 1-Port Variable Gain Signal Amplifier With Active Return connected. I'm using this because my living room TV was always pixilating and I was dropping my internet connection. I had it adjusted so the levels were right on with the TWC modem and I've checked once since installing the new Motorola modem and the levels seemed to be good on it as well.
Another thing that I thought of in the past couple of days, I have the Motorola modem connected to my router (I think its an older Cisco-Linksys WRTXXX?? router) and then the additional ports on the router feed my desktop PC, WHS machine and a line runs into our bedroom for the WD TV box. So if the router is going bad maybe its causing issues with everything thats connected to it (which would be most of the other PCs in the house and also anything connected to it wirelessly)??
So after posting all of this hopefully someone can clear things up a bit for me. Or give me some other things to look at to narrow things down a bit. Let me know if you need screen shots of anything else, etc. Thanks in advance.
I've got 4 computers in my house, all listed in my signature. There is a WHS 2011 machine down in my basement, a desktop PC, a HTPC and a laptop. We also have a WD TV box and our 2 smart phones on the network. Recently we've had some problems / slowness loading IE pages, at first it seemed to be only Google which is our home page. The page would take minutes to load, and we got an error "waiting for Google' in the tab. We first noticed this with Google on our laptop because the laptop gets the most use during the week. But it seems to also happen on other pages.
Because we first experienced this on the laptop, I thought it was a wireless issue . So I unplugged the router & modem and restarted them, which seemed to fix things, but only for a short while and then the same problem started again. The past few days I've been using my desktop PC because of the issue on the laptop, and now the same issue is happening up here. So I'm thinking that it isn't WiFi related and it's more of an issue with my internet/network.
I tried doing a "ipconfig /flushdns" running as an administrator and also resetting the IE settings (tools, internet options, advanced, reset IE settings) thinking it was an IE issue. Again, each of those might have helped for a while, but eventually the same issues came back. Sometimes the page will load and other times it'll get to an "unable to display page" page. I've tried clicking on the "fix connection problems" button when that page comes up, but I get a message that the problem couldn't be fixed or that the problem is with the page that we're trying to reach, which is usually Google or eBay, so I don't think that either of those sites would have problems for days and days?? I've attached screen shots of the error pages below. I also ran CCleaner and a Malwarebytes scan. The Malwarebytes scan found and removed a handful of files on both my desktop and laptop. And again, maybe a bit better, but the slowness is still there.
Not sure if this is related at all, but figured I'd mention it. A few months ago I got rid of my leased TWC modem and picked up a Motorola SB6141 modem. I've attached a screen shot of the modem settings page below. It's been a while since I looked at the modem settings page so I'm not 100% sure what the levels should be at. And with this new modem and the DOCSIS it seems a bit more complicated. Hopefully someone here can look over the numbers to verify they're at good levels. And I also have a PCT 1-Port Variable Gain Signal Amplifier With Active Return connected. I'm using this because my living room TV was always pixilating and I was dropping my internet connection. I had it adjusted so the levels were right on with the TWC modem and I've checked once since installing the new Motorola modem and the levels seemed to be good on it as well.
Another thing that I thought of in the past couple of days, I have the Motorola modem connected to my router (I think its an older Cisco-Linksys WRTXXX?? router) and then the additional ports on the router feed my desktop PC, WHS machine and a line runs into our bedroom for the WD TV box. So if the router is going bad maybe its causing issues with everything thats connected to it (which would be most of the other PCs in the house and also anything connected to it wirelessly)??
So after posting all of this hopefully someone can clear things up a bit for me. Or give me some other things to look at to narrow things down a bit. Let me know if you need screen shots of anything else, etc. Thanks in advance.
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