Messed up my laptop

[alldodge]

Most likely it is your processor and ram. Just not enough

 

[BWR1953]

Most likely it is your processor and ram. Just not enough

Nah, it's been operating fine for years. This has been a sudden change regarding getting onto the internet. And it can still play videos from the hard drive and whatnot. Off internet stuff is fine. I'm guessing that there's a wifi hardware issue.

 

[BWR1953]

Found the problem. The network adapter has failed. All done.

I ordered a cheap, refurbished replacement laptop until such time that I can order a brand new shiny one.

 

[rolmops]

I previously used Google Chrome as my browser, but I tried accessing a few websites with Edge and it's just as slow as it was when I used Chrome before. Not good.

How about shutting off your router and starting it up again?

 

[BWR1953]

How about shutting off your router and starting it up again?

Yah, that was done, but no joy.

Today I'm going to buy a Wi-Fi dongle to see if that will work as a temporary fix. I have serious stuff to get done and it's difficult to do with just a phone.

 

[Mc Tool]

Can you connect a keyboard to your ph ..... blue tooth or USB ,and can you measure bit speed to see just how well / consistent your internet is working
I am still on copper (and have to pay extra for it ) and when it rains my speed goes down but I know how to test it and Im on the ph demanding attention.
We still have copper , the telco hasnt got round to laying fibre for us . The company that owns and ( supposedly )maintains the actual lines ( Corus ) charge the Telco nearly double for copper because its out dated , inefficient and high maintenance so I have to pay double for crap, and thusly there is no incentive for the Corus to upgrade.
I aint that far out of town (Thornbury 9883 NZ).
A while ago I had issues with the overhead copper ph line into my house ( not the one we are in now ) where it came across the paddock the bloody lines kept crossing over in the wind and shorting out the feed to the house . I had to go down to the paddock and poke at the lines to un-cross them. I call Corus and complain that the lines weren't tensioned correctly , they would come out , un-cross the lines and bugger off .This went on for months , getting a real siege mentality .
one day ( get this ) I looks down to said paddock and here I see Monty ( the 800kg bull ) using the pole in the middle of the paddock as a rubbing post.........and man was that pole flapping about , wire swinging all over the place . Ho hum

 

[BWR1953]

Can you connect a keyboard to your ph ..... blue tooth or USB ,and can you measure bit speed to see just how well / consistent your internet is working
I am still on copper (and have to pay extra for it ) and when it rains my speed goes down but I know how to test it and Im on the ph demanding attention.
We still have copper , the telco hasnt got round to laying fibre for us . The company that owns and ( supposedly )maintains the actual lines ( Corus ) charge the Telco nearly double for copper because its out dated , inefficient and high maintenance so I have to pay double for crap, and thusly there is no incentive for the Corus to upgrade.
I aint that far out of town (Thornbury 9883 NZ).
A while ago I had issues with the overhead copper ph line into my house ( not the one we are in now ) where it came across the paddock the bloody lines kept crossing over in the wind and shorting out the feed to the house . I had to go down to the paddock and poke at the lines to un-cross them. I call Corus and complain that the lines weren't tensioned correctly , they would come out , un-cross the lines and bugger off .This went on for months , getting a real siege mentality .
one day ( get this ) I looks down to said paddock and here I see Monty ( the 800kg bull ) using the pole in the middle of the paddock as a rubbing post.........and man was that pole flapping about , wire swinging all over the place . Ho hum

The internet is working great on all of our other devices, download speed of 650 meg and up at 11 meg. Good stuff. Over a terabyte at the interface outside.

Just my laptop has the issue.

 

[BWR1953]

Got my laptop back online.

Went to Walmart and bought a Wi-Fi dongle, installed it, disabled the internal Wi-Fi adapter and bingo! Rockin' along again.

A darn shame that I lost stuff, but that can be replaced.
This is the normal speed for my ol' Dell.

 

[alldodge]

This is the normal speed for my ol' Dell.
242Mb/s

I can only get 6Mb/s

 

[BWR1953]

I can only get 6Mb/s

And we both remember when that was fast.

 

[rocknroj]

I run the dell similar to yours and been using them for years in various incarnations.. Sometimes the best best is to do a painful fresh install of the os.. The partitioning step is strange and confusing. I keep all my files in one folder with bunch of subfolders making it easy to copy the stuff to a usb stick to save. Often a disk drive upgrade is in order like moving to solid state unit. I always have two computers working for that purpose so I can download what I need, create the install drive etc from a working computer to rebuild the slow one.. Of course the microsoft website is the place to go for all the downloads you need. The fresh install allways works for me, painful as it can be.. Then the first thing to install is the anti-virus stuff.. Then the dell support for driver updates... then hour apps and files.. HTHT

 

[BWR1953]

I run the dell similar to yours and been using them for years in various incarnations.. Sometimes the best best is to do a painful fresh install of the os.. The partitioning step is strange and confusing. I keep all my files in one folder with bunch of subfolders making it easy to copy the stuff to a usb stick to save. Often a disk drive upgrade is in order like moving to solid state unit. I always have two computers working for that purpose so I can download what I need, create the install drive etc from a working computer to rebuild the slow one.. Of course the microsoft website is the place to go for all the downloads you need. The fresh install allways works for me, painful as it can be.. Then the first thing to install is the anti-virus stuff.. Then the dell support for driver updates... then hour apps and files.. HTHT

As I said in post 23, it was the network adapter that failed. Hardware failure. But thanks.

 

[dwco5051]

I can only get 6Mb/s

I remember having an acoustic modem where you dialed and then stuck the phone in rubber cups, 300 baud. Remember getting a 1200 then an 2400 baud modem and thought I was really flying. Now I am stuck with DSL but when I think back it is fine.