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Fast broadband speed, but slow internet!

paulsmith721
Newbie
Posts: 2
Registered: ‎16-05-2016

Fast broadband speed, but slow internet!

Hi all,
Im using windows 7 with all the latest updates and my broadband speeds are 80Mbps wired and 40 wireless, but my web surfing is painfully slow. I have had the engineer out today and he has fixed a fault that he found, so know the speeds are great.
Why is my pages loading so slow 15 to 20 seconds on average to load a basic page.
Its a fresh instal of the OS and I have run ccleaner.
Any advice much appreciated.

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MattyC
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Re: Fast broadband speed, but slow internet!

Which browser are you using?

Are you ok to clear your cookies and cache?

Matty

ex-Plusnet staffer. Any posts after 28/07/2017 aren't on behalf of Plusnet
paulsmith721
Newbie
Posts: 2
Registered: ‎16-05-2016

Re: Fast broadband speed, but slow internet!

I have tried Chrome and Firefox but they are both slow. I used ccleaner to clear cache.

Casey
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Registered: ‎12-05-2016

Re: Fast broadband speed, but slow internet!

It depends on the website - some use HTML5 in the background to serve ads and watch where you go and have been.

Sometimes they also play havoc with some of your browser plugins - I have flash set to "ask", "on demand" - and I get requests for flash when there's no flash content -- again, it's a behind the scenes flash app doing som advert or usage gathering for them.

I suggest - grab an older version of Opera, 12.18 portable (portable means you can run it and it doesn't change anything on your system, no taking over the urls, etc..)

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=507

O 12.18 doesn't understand HTML5 - so if it is that then it will be faster as it just ignores it.

if it's no faster than there are other issues.

Casey
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Re: Fast broadband speed, but slow internet!

How did it go?

Did that older Opera give a better web speed?