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Oldbiggles

bsod wrote: »

you mean you clicked on an advert

if you installed anything, you want to uninstall it, free or not.

No! Don't worry I'm not that dumb. As soon as it had sorted some of the problems it was uninstalled.

Oldbiggles

bsod wrote: »

visit your isp's faq's to see how to login to the router, where you can find out the speed of the connection

Just tried isp faq (Plusnet) but couldn't even find any reference to router speed anywhere on their site.

I think I will have to live with this problem until I get another computer.

Thanks guys for trying to help. This is a brilliant forum for getting assistance.

:beer:

bsod

the instructions you are looking for are how to login to the router, then all should become apparent.

NiftyDigits

Oldbiggles wrote: »

Don't fancy a second hand computer, it might prove to be worse than the one I've got, but thanks all the same.

Take a look at your signature and think again. It will be nothing like the one you have.
Your Packard Bell if that is what it is....is terribly outdated and incredibly slow.
I bought a DELL Optiplex 780 MT for £40. The difference will be like driving a Citroen 2CV up a mountain or driving a five year old rally car up a mountain.
Second hand, but relatively powerful and solidly built for business.

I expect to get many years of usage out of mine...for £40. You are doing yourself a disservice trying to keep that thing going. You need a more powerful machine than ten years ago simply to surf the web, let alone run programs. You should listen, old man.

Perhaps if you shared the specifications of your machine with everyone, they could stop wasting their time trying to find solutions for a machine that simply cannot hack it in today's world.

I'm surprised that no one has asked you about the spec....

cajef

Oldbiggles wrote: »

Just tried isp faq (Plusnet) but couldn't even find any reference to router speed anywhere on their site.

https://www.plus.net/help/broadband/router-user-guides/

bsod

they can't even complete a speed test, it's not the spec, but it's ready to be replaced

Oldbiggles wrote: »

Pentium(R) CPU 1.60GHz. 1.00GB of RAM.
Total size =35.3 GB, Free space =11.5GB

NiftyDigits

bsod wrote: »

they can't even complete a speed test, it's not the spec, but it's ready to be replaced

I disagree. It is the spec.

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz CPU benchmark of 129

Consider that my nine year old Netbook is running an Intel Atom N270 @ 1.60GHz single core with a CPU benchmark of 270. I would have thrown the thing away had I not been able to customise it with an SSD etc.


So an Optiplex 780 with a Intel(R) Core2 CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, attaining a CPU benchmark of 2166 will be a revelation for the OP.
The only issue is getting the man to listen.

bsod

the spec of your pre and post ssd atom netbook would have been, and still is capable of running a speedtest, as is a pentium 4, running xp, firefox, and avast, with 1GB of ram, so whilst the spec is very old and far slower than a modern machine, it is not responsible for the symptom being described on the website specified.

NiftyDigits

bsod wrote: »

the spec of your pre and post ssd atom netbook would have and still is capable of running a speedtest, as is a pentium 4, running xp, with 1GB or ram, so whilst the spec is very old, it is not responsible for the symptom being described.

You are quite wrong.
It is almost certainly responsible.

'Not Responding'

I'm also getting 'unresponsive script' messages

It's almost certainly to do with a lack of resources and nothing to do with the speed of his connection.

bsod

does the speedtest not work on your atom?

have you tried the speedtest on a p4