Slow Browsing/Problem connecting to games

Hi,
About two weeks ago I started to have a problem with my internet, webpages were slow to load, some not loading at all, and a number of games were suffering from disconnects. Upon contacting BT technical support they found a problem with our Home Hub 3.0 so sent us a new one.
However after setting up the new hub, i'm still having the exact same problems. The slow browsing is on both my PC which is connected by ethernet, and my laptop which is wireless. Despite this during peak and off-peak times, BT's speedtest is telling me that my PC has 75mb download speed and 16MB upload speeds.

Have you tried changing the DNS setting to google DNS on your devices
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Anything new to try with Leopard?
From nov 29, 2006 post by Starman
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Hello Hawaiian Starman,
Thanks very much for your very helpful posts re slow connections. They have taken care of our problem for any computer attached to an Ethernet cable. However, the problem persists for machines connected via wifi. And, the problem differs between each machine (1 desktop PowerPC G5 and 2 Intel MacBook Pros).
Here is the timeline.
We are moving from Starband satellite internet to a local provider who supplies wireless connectivity (http://www.sunncast.net/). With the suggestions you have posted, we find that any machine connected via ethernet cable gets very fast connectivity and has no problems with the "problem" websites. However, after the installer left and we settled down for the evening, we found that one of the 2 laptops was having difficulty with several of the "problem" websites. Washington Post was not accessible at all. Curiously, it was the machine that had been fully upgraded to 10.4.11 that was having no difficulty! Given that several upgrades were necessary for the other laptop. it was decided to upgrade the system, ignoring things like iDvd, iTunes, etc. for the moment. The result of this upgrade was a serious deterioration of speed with all of the "problem" websites having an enormous slowdown. The ONLY problem seen (so far) with the properly performing laptop was that gmail just displays nothing and goes into an infinite download loop in Camino but loads instantly in Safari.
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Thanks for replying.
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0 Mbps
0.83 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed
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Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 0.83 Mbps

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For the benefit of those who are being driven nuts with SLLOOOWWWW Explorer 'Problems', I list the methodology which has worked for me.
As always, 'Use at Own Risk' and 'Your Mileage May Vary'.
Do NOT repeat NOT perform these steps unless youfully understand the ramifications and are prepared to live with the consequences.
BACKUP FIRST !!! - Create a RESTORE POINT!
The latest incarnations of Windows attempt to 'out-think' the user in order to provide a 'Better Computing Experience', and that is well and good for the average Joe-Blow, but NOT what the Power-User wants or expects. There are MANY suggestions as
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indexing of little use?
You'll still be able to see local thumbnails if that's what you want, they will just be remade each time you open the folder and select Thumbnail (Large Icon) View. This is usually less bothersome than the time loss of having a 'Master' Thumbnail
cache maintained and updated for every file operation.
Certainly, some 3rd Party 'add-ons' (Power Archiver for one! & similar) may cause problems, as can poorly configured A/V programs (realtime checking of Notepad for instance, every time it is opened??? Why not bring back the old innoculate method?) -
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I repeat: 'This methodology has worked for me - Your Mileage May Vary'.
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Kill the time and resource hog 'Indexing Services' - Plenty of advice on how to do that is available online.
DISALLOW Indexing on all volumes.
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http://www.voidtools.com/ which searches ONLY on local or removable NTFS volumes. (ie NOT FAT32 USB Drives!) But that poses very little problem when I examine my real-world use of any Search Tool.
SE needs Administrator privileges for its low-level file-system access, certainly not an issue to have a responsive Global Search at your fingertips.
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The online FAQ has plenty of information including how to use wildcards, Path Matching, boolean operators and regex use.
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Start > Run > gpedit.msc
Navigate to:
Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Explorer
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4. Turn off the display of snippets in Content view mode
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5. Turn off caching of thumbnail pictures
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Note: For shared corporate workstations or computers where security is a top concern, you should enable this setting to turn off the thumbnail view cache, because the thumbnail cache can be read by everyone.
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I hope that this is of use to others, it has served me well for the last several months.
A few minor delays when wanting thumbnail views, but certainly FAR LESS DELAY than before the changes, and
no more stalled Explorer.
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