Windows 7 Internet Is As Slow As Dial-Up

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  1. Agamer

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    Well, I finally got Windows 7 running on my computer and I've upgraded from XP. After upgrading I realized that there was a lot of things that needed to be updated and it needs to access the internet.

    When allowing these things to be done, it loads Internet Explorer by default and it can't even go anywhere, it does, it just goes as if it were dial up speed. This is also like this when I try to load IE just in general. When I go to my settings it's telling me it's connected to the internet, yet it can't find my router and modem in the settings, yet on my mom's laptop it's telling me I'm connected to the router and the speed is extremely fast like it should be.

    I have three computers in total in my house and they are all running perfectly smooth off of my wireless router, yet my computer(which I'm not on at the moment) can barely run internet.

    I have no idea what's wrong and I came for help. Hopefully, I won't be making another thread about my computer any time soon once this gets fixed.
     
  2. B3NW

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    Have you tried updating your drivers for your wireless card? That seems like it's your problem. Otherwise it's just a case of configuring :p
     
  3. Whisper

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    Use Windows XP.
     
  4. Killor118

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    Da or....Use a different internet browser like Firefox or Chrome. Internet Explorer doesnt do well with Windows Vista/7
     
  5. Meltyourtv

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    Internet Explorer doesn't do well with anything. xD
     
  6. Grif

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    Internet explorer is like if you took Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox, combined them, stripped it of every useful feature then replaced it with a piece of crap.
     
  7. Agamer

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    Well, not one of these answers are helpful........

    I tried updating some drivers or whatever andthat didn't work.... I'm just going to try again tomorrow.

    Hopefully you guys realize that it would be impossible to download another browser I can't even successfully do the updates or whatever and I can barely connect... it's not IE it's
    something to do with windows 7 and something else.

    I'd appreciate a serious response.
     
  8. X5

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    IE sucks.
    Windows Updates can **** up your internet, even on Vista and XP.
    So you system restore it.
     
  9. B3NW

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    Please don't be rude, I was trying to help you ;l

    Open the start menu, go into search and type cmd and click enter.

    Then type the following in order:

    ipconfig /release
    ipconfig /renew
    ipconfig /flushdns
    ipconfig /registerdns

    Hopefully that will work, otherwise I'm sure it's a problem with your drivers. Also, is the adapter displaying your router as limited to no connection?
     
  10. stouf761

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    I have yet to encounter any speed problem with IE8 + Windows 7, mine works like a speedy charm...

    Honestly, people complain about IE, and I don't get it...

    But as people have said it is probably a simple driver issue. What brand modem do you have?
     
  11. Killor118

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    Not true. Right now im using IE7 and im running smoothly on XP

    Although Agamer, You could download it on a different computer on to a USB Flash Drive and put it in your computer and install it. When i had Windows 7 the internet did not lag one bit.

    So dont blame the Epic 7. Blame IE8.
     

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