Temporary IE files

Ally77

Hey, am currently trying to troubleshoot a slow internet dial-up connection and am looking for a bit of advice. Im running ad-aware, stinger and norton internet security to detect viruses and sptware that could be the cause of this.
I know that the temporary IE files can also be a cause of a slow connection but am unsure of how i can determine when this is the cause. i.e the temp folder gets to a certain size etc

Any help appreciated

vex

You could delete the temp files and see if your connection speeds up.

Silver Bullet

You might also consider having the phone company check the line for noise as that can also cause slow connect speeds.

crap I forgot my old pwd

2 things can cause a PC to run extra slow. Temps and msconfig startup. Open up msconfig, and make sure you check the startup menu. Try and clear out as much of it as you can. Also, go to ccleaner.com. Run the temp file cleaner, and then run the registry fixer. Then restart the PC and see if that fixes the problem. If that doesn't, then try uninstalling the modem, and reinstalling it. Also run modem diagnostics as well. Try and determine from this point if there is a hardware problem with the modem. If all of this fails, then consult the ISP.

Ally77

ok people, thanks for the advice!! the speed of the modem appears 2 be normal but at times its jus painfully slow opening up web pages (random pages). il try ur advice thanks

jmc724

You are on dialup, speed are always slow, get cable or dsl....

jescab

it could just be the page that it is trying to open - that page could have lots of graphics and large graphics

RussS

Ally77 - part of the problem you are experiencing is that many web designers do not take people with dial-up into account when designing sites these days.
Sometimes I run across people who have home pages that take several minutes to load - I swap them to say Google and is loads reasonably quick and they are very grateful. Not only is it the graphics, but also code that you do not see and animations that kill dial-up. Heck, I remember when the internet was text only (except for **** sites ) and once graphics came in people started putting all sorts of animated gifs and flash graphics on theior pages that just brought a 14k or 28k moden to a stall and and slowed even the better connections down.

Plantwiz

RussS wrote:

Heck, I remember when the internet was text only (except for **** sites ) and once graphics came in people started putting all sorts of animated gifs and flash graphics on theior pages that just brought a 14k or 28k moden to a stall and and slowed even the better connections down.

I remember 'Upgrading' to a 14.4K modem.....that was speed

JDMurray

Plantwiz wrote:

I remember 'Upgrading' to a 14.4K modem.....that was speed

Oh please! I remember being impressed when "upgrading" from 110 to 300 baud on a DECwriter, and astonished at the 4x speed increase going from 300 to 1200 baud using Telnet (I think that year was 1984). I never went past V.32 (9.6K) on dial-up. By the time V.90 (56K) modems came out I was already on DSL.

Those were the daze...

Plantwiz

jdmurray wrote:

Plantwiz wrote:

I remember 'Upgrading' to a 14.4K modem.....that was speed

Oh please! I remember being impressed when "upgrading" from 110 to 300 baud on a DECwriter, and astonished at the 4x speed increase going from 300 to 1200 baud using Telnet (I think that year was 1984). I never went past V.32 (9.6K) on dial-up. By the time V.90 (56K) modems came out I was already on DSL.

Those were the daze...

'84 sounds about right on the 300 up to 1200 baud, and that one I remember as well. Though my first personal modem was a 2400baud.

The 14.4 was just the most exciting for me, seemed like we'd never get there

And I did have the V.90's just haven't gone with the V.92's

kalebksp

jdmurray wrote:

(I think that year was 1984)

Yes I remember that well too... except I hadn't even been born.

JDMurray

Plantwiz wrote:

Though my first personal modem was a 2400baud.

I never actually upgraded my modem until the price of the next higher speed model dropped to $200. I seem to remember that US Robotics usually led the modem price wars, and then later it was Practical Peripherals. I think 2400 baud modems dipped below $200 in 1987. That was the best value for the money until the V.92 modem came out years later. It's unreal the kind of memory, disk space, and video performance you can buy for $200 now.

[Uh, I think we dragged this thread a bit off-topic. ]

2lazybutsmart

I remember buying 4 megs of ram for $200

Plantwiz

2lazybutsmart wrote:

I remember buying 4 megs of ram for $200

I got a StarTrek CD for Christmas and it needed 8 megs of ram, I only had 4MB, and yes that was about what is cost me in 1993.

Now you can buy a USB Thumb drive with 1GB for under $100.



realizing we've jumped sideways on the topic, ALLY77 are you all set?

RussS

Dang old fogies

JDMurray

2lazybutsmart wrote:

I remember buying 4 megs of ram for $200

In 1988 I bought a new Conner 200MB hard drive "at cost" for $200. One dollar per megabyte for hard disk storage; I couldn't believe how prices had fallen!! Now in 2005 it's about $0.30 a gigabyte for much faster and efficient disk storage. How things have really changed.

Oh, I still have that 200MB Conner hard disk. It still works just fine.

Ally77

Ok people thanks for the replies, it jus seemed to be slowing down all of a sudden but broadband is top of my list. thanks

jescab

increase the virtual memory start up size