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I have a weird issue at work.
It would seem it is my pc but dont know what

THere are certain websites i go onto regularly i.e.

Sometimes i am straight onto it and sometimes i have to sit and wait for it to load.

If i try the same site on another pc in the office it works straight away.

Any ideas what this could be ?

Paul

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Intermittent, per-machine slowness while the same site opens quickly from other office PCs usually means the delay happens before the browser actually downloads page data. Because sees the problem only on his XP/Firefox machine and it sometimes works fine, this points to a local resolution/stack/driver or background-process issue rather than the remote site. 's browser suggestions are useful; the steps below will help separate network/OS-layer problems from Firefox-level ones so the right fix can be applied.

Quick diagnostic commands (run from a Windows command prompt):

nslookup www.fmttm.com
ping -n 10 www.fmttm.com
tracert www.fmttm.com

What to look for: long time in nslookup (DNS), high first-hop time in tracert (gateway/router), or consistently high pings (link). If DNS looks slow, run:

ipconfig /flushdns

If delays appear only during TCP connect/handshake, reset the network stack and Winsock (reboot after these):

netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

Other checks not yet mentioned in the thread:

  • Inspect the hosts file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts for unexpected entries.
  • Update or reinstall the NIC driver and force the adapter to a fixed speed/duplex (100 Mbps Full Duplex) in Device Manager to avoid auto-negotiation stalls.
  • Do a Clean Boot (msconfig: hide Microsoft services, disable others) or boot Windows Safe Mode with Networking to rule out background services/AV scanning. If testing requires disabling antivirus, do so only briefly.
  • Use the browser Developer Tools (Network tab) or a packet capture (Wireshark) to see whether the delay is DNS, connect, or content transfer.

Recommended order: reproduce the issue, capture nslookup/ping/tracert, flush DNS, reset Winsock/TCP, update NIC driver/duplex, then clean boot/Safe Mode. If diagnostics point outside the workstation (gateway/router or DNS server), provide the captured output to the network admin for further tracing.

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Let see some possibilities:
Different version of browser (update...),
Old java/flash module could cause it.,
Block of some content,
Nasty type ,
Prefetch/cache/cookies set different (after reboot slow, later fast...)

It would by good to tell us more details. How often, happens after start of PC....

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I have a HP DX2000 2.8GHz, 768 RAM, WIN XP and using Firefox

As I say, one day in the future it will work normally then will go back to being slow on certain websites.
I can be waiting anything upto 5 mins for a page to load, but it does load eventually !!

Any ideas what i can do as i have done all the normall spyware stuff. Spybot, Ad Aware

Paul

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I have a HP DX2000 2.8GHz, 768 RAM, WIN XP and using Firefox

Paul

Next possibilities:
Internet setting is a bit different then by others.(proxy, network settings)
Add ons in Firefox

Try to build a new profile in Firefox and if that won't help reinstall the Firefox. Maybe everyone else has a new (install of) Firefox, and your was just "upgraded" to higher version.

Get an add on for Firefox called fasterfox. It was design to speed browsing. That could help.

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