A little PC advice....

[dfariswheel]

I'm having an odd problem with my Win 7 PC.

It randomly drops my internet connection down to so slow it's unusable. It doesn't appear to be totally off line, just super slow and unusable.
If I reboot, it connects properly.
This happens totally random, it may happen 3-4 times in a day, or not for several days.

My internet connection has been checked twice by my provider, so it looks like it's my PC.
My buddy is an electrical engineer in another city and he says it's a software problem.

I have no idea how to troubleshoot this, and I was wondering if I restored my PC to the original condition and reloaded everything if that might solve it.
Since I run a bare bones system with very little software and I keep all files backed up on DVD's, reloading and restoring everything isn't a big problem.
I'd just rather not have to do this unless it might fix the problem.

Any advice?????

[5.56NATO]

I recently had hdd(s) go fail on a win7 system and reloaded after a format. I too had several instances of innernet and program freezes, etc that had been building for a few weeks. So after determining disks were on their way out it was time to get new disks and a fresh os install. The mem/mobo/psu/cpu were tested with several different memory test apps such as the one built in to windows, and memtest86 found at this link as a bootable cd;
https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Best part is the win7 install media had every driver save for the gpu, after installing the gpu driver it runs far better than the previous install.

Then looked for any updates that were desirable and found these primary win7 updates;
windows-7-sp1-ru-ar-jp-cn-it-de-fr-pt-en-es.exe
Windows6.1-KB3020369-x86.msu
windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x86_ba1ff5537312561795cc04db0b02fbb0a74b2cbd.msu
Install these in the order they are above.
Google them and get them from M$ to be sure you get clean code. Your system might be 64bit, mine is 32bit so the updates kbxxxxxx will be the same but for a 64b os and won't have x86 in the name.

It runs noticeably faster than it has in years, while there was a loss of disks, a fresh os improved performance.

[imanaknut]

having similar issues with suddenly slow internet and pages slow to load. Wonder if Microsoft put some bug into Win7 to force us to update? Funny that they said they will no longer support Win7 yet Microsoft Edge showed up and is constantly updated. Don't have the gonads to see if Edge works better than Google Chrome.

[5.56NATO]

having similar issues with suddenly slow internet and pages slow to load. Wonder if Microsoft put some bug into Win7 to force us to update? Funny that they said they will no longer support Win7 yet Microsoft Edge showed up and is constantly updated. Don't have the gonads to see if Edge works better than Google Chrome.

Mozilla works fine but uses more mem. I run edge too but it has its own quirks, like sometimes the net seems to freeze.

[dfariswheel]

I'm not having program freezes or slowdowns..... only the internet connection slows almost to a halt, and does so totally at random.

It's been many years (1980's) since I was involved in any kind of software troubleshooting and I have no idea what to do with modern systems.

I'm running Win 7 and Brave browser.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

I'm not having program freezes or slowdowns..... only the internet connection slows almost to a halt, and does so totally at random.

It's been many years (1980's) since I was involved in any kind of software troubleshooting and I have no idea what to do with modern systems.

I'm running Win 7 and Brave browser.

I would start by trying another browser before I reinstalled, maybe it's just that browser? Run a virus scan of course, I'm assuming you already have though.

[Oswald Bastable]

I'm not having program freezes or slowdowns..... only the internet connection slows almost to a halt, and does so totally at random.

It's been many years (1980's) since I was involved in any kind of software troubleshooting and I have no idea what to do with modern systems.

I'm running Win 7 and Brave browser.

Who's your provider? They've been known to lie about whether the problem is on your end or theirs...

Also, what's your setup? Modem and wireless router, combined modem/router, dsl/cable, connected via ethernet or wireless?

Could be something as simple as an ethernet cable or wireless card that needs to be replaced. Router problems can also cause what you're experiencing if your router is on its way to going tets up.

1Pat...Brave is a newer browser, still under development, trying to be the duckduckgo of browsing, so to speak, in helping to protect your search/click habits being tracked across the interwebz. I've been testing it for a while now...that's not the problem. But check it out: https://brave.com