Question The internet seems to be struggling

[bwallx]

Not sure where to post this. It seems to be an internet problem, as numerous websites with embedded video struggle to load them. My speed test is great with A+ scores all round. It applies to three browsers I tried. I removed my Bitdefender suite with no improvement.

Video on many sites seems to show a spinning circle forever or if it loads, it stutters or stalls. I wondered if this was a common experience and if not what on earth can I do about it. As I said, my cable internet is performing great, and the web is otherwise very responsive. The sites causing trouble tend to be news aggregation sites, maybe that is a clue?

Win 11 homebuilt system, main browser Edge or Firefox. Cable internet over Ethernet. 32Gb RAM. SSD boot drive.

 

[kanewolf]

Not sure where to post this. It seems to be an internet problem, as numerous websites with embedded video struggle to load them. My speed test is great with A+ scores all round. It applies to three browsers I tried. I removed my Bitdefender suite with no improvement.

Video on many sites seems to show a spinning circle forever or if it loads, it stutters or stalls. I wondered if this was a common experience and if not what on earth can I do about it. As I said, my cable internet is performing great, and the web is otherwise very responsive. The sites causing trouble tend to be news aggregation sites, maybe that is a clue?

Win 11 homebuilt system, main browser Edge or Firefox. Cable internet over Ethernet. 32Gb RAM. SSD boot drive.

Start by disabling IPv6 on you PC. it is an option on your ethernet adapter.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Try with Chrome, but disable hardware acceleration in the settings options.

This could be the fix.

 

[bwallx]

All browsers exhibit this. I have disabled an iPV6 setting for the ethernet adapter in control panel and will experiment. Thanks.

 

[punkncat]

A side note here.

There has been a very strong/bad (lol, Strongbad) bit of solar activity and flares over the past several weeks. In addition to this aspect, soaring temperatures across the nation to boot. The solar activity causes various issues on its own, and the heat reduces the effectiveness of air conditioning in the server and equipment rooms, particularly for small remote sites. My own internet has been suffering on and off as a result.

Not to say the above are the total causation of your internet woes, but they sure aren't helping mine....

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

No issues on any browsers I use. Firefox , chrome or vivaldi.