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I recently upgraded my DSL package from 3MB download to 6MB download. I initially wanted 12MB download but I was just a tad too far from the box to get 12MB consistently. My ISP uses AT&T's network and their U-verse gateway router (Pace 5268AC). The speed tests I've ran show the expected improvement over the same tests I ran earlier with my 3MB connection. The problem is the initial (finding and) loading of the web sites I visit. They are painfully slow. Even the internal configuration site (192.168.1.254) takes 15-20 seconds to finally show up in the browser (Chrome). Before I upgraded, I had slower download speeds, but the sites were found and the download started right away. Now I have faster download speeds, but it takes at least 15 seconds for the browser to find the site and start the download. After that, sites load very fast.
I'm thinking it is a setting someplace in the router but I've not a clue which one. I can't imagine it being the computer or a NIC setting since neither of those changed after the upgrade.
Anyone have a idea as to what I might check?
[update]
IE seems to load the sites noticeably faster. PINGing the sites (e.g., www.codeproject.com) also produces a plethora of "Request timed out" responses.
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Thanks.
DC
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
modified 10-Apr-17 19:11pm.
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Download ADWCleaner from Bleeping computer - clean with complete disregard for what it finds. Reboot as you must and try again.
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Really sounds like you have a faulty modem if the same problem occurs on your phone for example. Call your isp and get a new one
Before you do that, set the DNS Servers in your Modem's web interface to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, those are Google's DNS servers and consistently fast.
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EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne wrote: ...if the same problem occurs on your phone for example.
Wireless devices are fine. It's just the one wired computer, which is only a few months old.
EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne wrote:
Before you do that, set the DNS Servers in your Modem's web interface to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, those are Google's DNS servers and consistently fast.
I did that almost right off the bat.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Did you try using another LAN port on your router?
Did you try resetting the LAN Interface on windows? The troubleshooter can do that, alternatively you can uninstall the driver in device manager and then hit "Scan for hardware changes" to reinstall it.
Something else you can try is executing "ping -t www.example.com" to see if the issue really comes from DNS lookups / your modem and not your browser.
Could just as well be an issue with your browser, which this test should show by replying within a few milliseconds or if it takes just as long as visiting pages your windows install.
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EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne wrote:
Could just as well be an issue with your browser...
There may be some truth to this. I tried opening a few sites with IE and they loaded noticeably faster. I'll research some more this week.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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DavidCrow wrote: upgraded my DSL package from 3MB download to 6MB download.
At that sort of speed, they should be paying you. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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True, but this the US we're talking about here. Squeeze every last red cent you can out of the consumer, then lobby congress to try to get even more. 
Though to be fair, with those speeds, the cost is likely only a pinky finger, rather than an arm and a leg.
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So... I've been known for years for the amount of coffee I drink, all day, every day. At home, I have well water which I like, but at work - it is city water and that I don't like. So, I filter it through ground coffee.
On my desk at work, I have a collection of cups: the one I had when I started there, a gift from my wife with my daughters picture on it, a cup from a friend when the visited their son in the Marines, and my current cup: one that looks like a prescription bottle. Most of them are in the 8 to 12 ounce range.
Well, today I got a new cup.. nothing fancy. Simple white design. But, its 60 ounces !
On Monday morning, during our regularly scheduled meeting, I plan to enter the room with the new cup and listen to jaws hit the floor.
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I don't like coffee (makes me very sick), but that is AWESOME!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Tim Carmichael wrote: But, its 60 ounces
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Quote: But, its 60 ounces
Way to go cowboy! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Can you drink it fast enough so that it's still at least lukewarm by the time you reach the bottom? Or are you gonna have to throw away half of it?
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Hmmm.. I like my coffee hot, but if I drank 60 ounces.. I'd be a hurtin' unit.. I probably drink 60 ounces per day, but not at one sitting.
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OK, so Madam decided she wanted to watch it, so I had to sit through it, and I was yawning all the way until about 30 minutes through the first episode, which was well enough written, but dull, dull, dull...
Then it made me laugh.
... And it continued to make me laugh!
IMO, It's worth sitting through the establishing scenes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I see on the Rotten Tomatoes website it has a 88% approval rating. This is too low to condemn it outright. When/if it ever hits 95%, I will know to avoid it at all costs. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Well, tomorrow (Sunday) will be my 73rd birthday. Good Lord! How quickly did that creep up on me! I think back on the number of celebrities that passed at an earlier age. Should that scare me? Why am I not afraid? Somehow my body aged faster than my ability to think.
Despite arthritis and all sorts of aches and pains, I still remain active coding as a hobby. Currently I am making good progress mastering the Prism MVVM Framework (Version 6.3.0). I am even planning writing a beginner's article on getting started with Prism. The existing articles on this topic do not impress me at all.
Should I rather be planning for the arrival of the Grim Reaper? No! Screw him! I have no intention of falling victim to that SOB yet! I have so much more to achieve, before I will be ready for the final curtain.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So you are more or less Version 7.3 you old sack
All I read about/from you sounds more like Version 3.1. Keep going on like this, your physical Age is maybe 73, your personal Age is at least -20 from it.
All the best for you, looking Forward for your update to 10.1 
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Better default than a train set. You go. 
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You are a mere child.
"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the hell happened."
"Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
Al Capp
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So true! 
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My 72nd is in a couple of months, so I have a little understanding of how you feel. I am not learning that much new stuff these days, more just keeping (or trying to) my hand in. As to the future, it's still there waiting for you.
Oh, and have a happy one.
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have a great day, and, growing old beats the alternative
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Congratulations, Cornelius !
This physical body typing at you now reached the same age seven moons ago, and, while a bit worse for wear, continues to function. Perhaps we share a trait of finding delight, and energy, in always learning new things ?Empedocles Listen now to a further point: no mortal thing Has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration. There is only a mixing, and then a separating of what was mixed.
But, by mortal men, these processes are named: 'beginnings'
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
modified 9-Apr-17 5:36am.
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