well the behavior that is triggering my searching and interest is that for the past month or 2 at most internet pages have been loading very poorly. its not a speed thing cause I can stream other devices fine, I can game/download updates with xbox fine, its only on my laptop.
Here is a few scenarios I've noticed:
1) check my gmail so I can get my nfl pools up and running this year...type in gmail.com. Previously it would be up and running in maybe 1-2 seconds...now, my browser tab spins for anywhere from 5-10 seconds. Then one of 2 things happens (really 3 things), a) the page loads fine, b) the page displays an error that says "<insert website name here> failed to send any data". Now...the tab is still spinning when that pops up so the b1)error is that it will stop there and nothing happens, b2) error pops up, tab is still spinning and ultimately (another 5-10 seconds it will load the page fine). I've noticed this with random web pages at random times. I just tried the gmail.com website and it loaded fine within about 3-4 seconds (acceptable). But...while waiting for responses on this thread (playing Madden on xbox) I was shopping for my wife's birthday this weekend and had a hell of a time loading search results on google for an item I'm looking for. I found an item, looked like it was via amazon.com and clicked on the item description, picture, item title....all of them seemed to want to link to Amazon's website...but all failed to load the page and ultimately stopped running.
2) While surfing my guitar/gear forums...among the issues in number one intermittently happening...when I CAN load a thread....and someone has posted a youtube video or similar...those will show up as the same error as number one...only way to load it (its like a game of roulette) is to refresh the page...which then might not even refresh resorting back to issue 1. This was particularly frustrating last night as I was trying to purchase something from the website
https://www.3sigmaaudio.com/electric-impulses/ As you can see on that site (if you dont want to go its fine....there are several windows where you can 'add to cart' that also included a short audio sample which I had a hell of a time getting to work right...but even then when I was convinced I wanted to purchase some of the files...i spent 30 minutes trying to get the 'add to cart' links to work right. I eventually got 3 of the 4, but could not get the last one to load/add correctly.
3) while using my credit union's online banking, again the web page has the issues in #1...the place where I enter id/password will pop up with the same issue as number 2, and if left alone for a minute will eventually load...or need to be refreshed...resorting back to the issues in number 1.
This is all new behavior since I switched internet companies...again, no idea why that matters when i'm connected to the same router/modem as other devices and nothing on my laptop was touched during installation. Its not normal for this machine either as I've had it around a year-ish...
I'm open to any ideas....that could be causing it cause its very time consuming and frustrating. I unfortunately did not have the 'restore' function turned on prior to the issues happening so a simple system restore isnt an option...if that would even be an possible solution.
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