I've got a problem with internet since around three days ago. My browser just doesn't open some websites, totally random it seems (but it probably isn't) and some work but are very slow. I tried screwing around in settings a bit but i can't get anything to change. Any thoughts on what it might be?

erm... your not using internet explorer are you? If so your violating the terms and agreements for posting in this forum


Assuming your using a competant browser, make sure your not running a blocklist on port 80, that's normally the problem. You could refresh your cache and connection, in winXP, right click on your connection and click repair. That sometimes works.

Your isp could also be having troubles with their cache. Ebay goes exceptionally slow for me sometimes.

Internet explorer here indeed for 333 posts already. Never tried anything else but maybe it's time to do so...
I guess you'd recommend Firefox?
For the rest: no blocklist on port 80, cache was already refreshed, connection too but nothing worked.
Which leaves me at the isp, since even formatting didn't seem to help (needed to do so anyway)....

On another forum right now, they are running a little vote as to which browser people using. Before it was opened (and this is really just a normal everyday forum) people thought that IE would end up at about 60%. Well thus far the results are as follows:

From a total of 1,398 voters:

Firefox - 57%
IE - 29%
Safari - 5%
Opera - 5%
Other - 2%
Netscape - 1%
Maxthon/MyIE - 1%

Whilst this is no way definitive I think it represents a fair cross section of users. Even though I was surprised to see Firefox with such a high percentage.

@D. Not much help to you now, as you appeared to have isolated the problem, but a couple of times I've had a similar thing and had to do a:

ipconfig /flushdns at the command prompt

install firefox D. Its just plain better in every way.

Firefox is rapidly taking over IE, ie is just crummy, buggy and plain bad at html parsing and its security is lousy.

But most importantly, as a user, tabbed browsing is a god send, navbars and what have you improve the browsing experience and it responds and looks better. There's not really a plus for IE except it will display badly programmed sites that are designed specifically for IE for whatever reason.

I installed it yesterday, feels really familliar but improved too. Those tabs are handy, keeps the overview...

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And after that, do i have to put some settings back or something?
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No just run it at the command prompt D.

Doesn't make any difference.

actually, that doesn't exactly what clicking right click>repair on your connection does, clears all the connection caches.

So if you've run repair as i suggested, that's just doing a little bit of what repair has already done