Newer HP takling a long time to load web pages - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

TheSpecialist · 12-26-2008, 04:37 PM

How much RAM do you have, and what else is running

Raven · 12-26-2008, 04:45 PM

plenty of sites out there that will test your internet speed for free

Swimmer · 12-26-2008, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

How much RAM do you have, and what else is running

It either three or four gigs of ram. I am thinking that more than one aol program was running. I deleted/reinstalled aol a few times. I just did it again, because a window came up and suggested I do that. It seems a little better. Windows explorer wouldn't be trying to load in the background would it?

Sgt_Nutz · 12-26-2008, 09:14 PM

That computer should load anything you throw at it in no time at all. I suspect your 56k connection may not be able to keep up with all the web page content. Your connection speed could vary at any given time as well. Seems to me I had that trouble years ago when I switched my phone to cable. Dumped the 56k modem and went with cable internet. Don't know if I could trouble shoot that now its been so long since I used a 56k modem. You could try the Firefox browser instead of Internet Explorer. It's a little liter and may load faster:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

It's all I use now. If you are daring try looking at your modem settings???