sloooow IE 6

[HVH]

I just upgraded from a P2 450 to an AMD 1.4 with an ECS K7s5a M/B. I changed modems from a US robotics to a supra express modem. Since the change, my connect speed has gone from 49333 to 50667. I had IE 6 before the change, and currently, but the speed has really dropped. It is almost unusable. What could have changed to go from good to poor performance with no changes to the browser. Opera works very well............but IE 6 used to.

 

[blah]

Ok, you have all the answers you need in yer post:

Q: "What could have changed to go from good to poor performance with no changes to the browser."
A: "I changed modems from a US robotics to a supra express modem."

Q: "Opera works very well............but IE 6 used to."
A: "I just upgraded from a P2 450 to an AMD 1.4" (did you hear anything about "wintel")

Q: "my connect speed has gone from 49333 to 50667" & "What could have changed to go from good to poor performance"
A: hehehe, how could 50 can be less than 49? lol, that’s a wonder to me.


it's my life, don't tell me what to do with it...

 

[HonestJhon]

other things may have factored into the slowdown..
the strange thing is, i used to have a supra express modem, the 56k isa version, and that thing BLAZED compared to my neighbors us robotics external modem, but i am guessing that is because his was external...
also, i am pretty sure that the number that windows reports when you connect to the internet is just the initial connect speed, immediately after that, it ususally averages 40k...
other than maybe the phone line you are using is different, orrr, some settings in ie6 are wrong, orrrrrrrrrr you need to update the drivers for the modem...
also, who is you internet service provider?
maybe you can contact them and find out why you are getting such slow connections...
other than that, i really dont know..
that are a bunch of things that could be causing it..
and if opera is running fine, but ie6 isnt, ont he same computer, on the same modem, on the same connection, then i would say that there is a problem with ie6..
but then again, i am using ie6 right now, and am not having a problem at all...
oh yeah, how do you like that k7s5a? i am thinking about getting one...how is it performing, and have you had any stability issues?

-DAvid

-Vacuums suck...really...-

 

[HVH]

The K7s5a has been very stable.......seems to be a very good board, and fairly cheap. My isp is Earthlink, as it was before the change. Half of my computer use is via the internet, and with no broadband service available, the slow performance is annoying.

 

[btvillarin]

Did you download IE6 somewhere to your HD, or was it just installed off the internet? If you did, I have a suggestion. Download <A HREF="http://98lite.net/ieradicator.html" target="_new">IEradicator 6</A> and use it to uninstall IE6. <b>Make sure you back up your favorites somewhere else if you need to</b>. Then, reinstall it. Hopefully reinstalling it clean will speed things up. If you find you can't access Windows Update, then I can email you the fix, because the official site doesn't have their support forum up and I downloaded it awhile ago.

Kernel32.dll error...aw, son of a.... 😱

 

[HonestJhon]

that fix sounds right to me..
and if nothing else works, earthlink usually knows how to fix things..
a while back, when i had 56k, and my modem fried, and all i had laying around was some really old modem from an ast, i dont even know how fast it was....i am talking a modem from the mid 80's here..
i couldnt get it to work, but they did..
arent they supposed to be releasing that new dsl......the one that can go twice (or thrice) as far as normal dsl?
that way, they could get more customers..
also, it was supposed to be faster...
but then again, when i heard about it, that was a while ago..
like 4 months..
no broadband option sucks...tell them to build a phone distribution office like a block away from your house so that you can get dsl!...hehe


-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-