Sudden wifi woes

[bodminman]

Morning all,

 

My lappy is running W10 and the wife's lappy is running W8 and up until about last Friday we could browse the web at home without issues. However, my wife still browses without issue but my lappy has gone crappy!

 

If I run both the BT Wholesale and Speedtest.net tests both return 18mb down with a ping latency of over 350ms. On the wife's machine the download is about the same but the ping is always much lower.

 

What I'm experiencing is very slow webpage loading. If I open a browser and type Google and hit enter, this takes 12 seconds to load!

 

Anyone got any ideas?

 

Cheers

[difinity]

Has Windows 10 "helpfully" loaded some new drivers for you ?

[bodminman]

God knows.

 

I am now going through each device and manually updating the drivers just in case.

 

I'd also say that W10 is more sluggish than it has been too.

 

The laptop is no slouch with an i7 cpu, 8gb ram and a ssd and looking at task manager it's not breaking any sort of sweat at all.

 

It's just become niggly but you really notice it when browsing the web. I have tried it going via the Ethernet cable and that didn't make and difference to the browsing.

 

I'm stumped!

[cpjitservices]

Seems like a driver issue, What Wireless card have you got ? I'd try manufacturers site see if they have an updated one... or try installing one for Win 8.1

[bodminman]

Seems like a driver issue, What Wireless card have you got ? I'd try manufacturers site see if they have an updated one... or try installing one for Win 8.1

 

Broadcomm 802.11n Network Adapter Driver ver 6.30.223.256

 

What browser are you using? Worth a punt shoving chrome on there and see how that pans out.

Might be some malware in there and I would think about installing a malware scanner to give it a clean.

 

Have the issue with Edge, IE, Chrome, Firefox and Opera.

 

Have also run Malwarebytes and where as this usually completes it's scan with 15 mins, it now takes over 45 mins and never finds anything.

[Michael]

Easy thing to try - if in doubt, tether to your phone, but I agree with others it does sound driverish to me.

[elsiegee40]

You have done malware checks, haven't you? MBAM etc

[bodminman]

First thing I done was AV and Malware checks and both return 0 issues. I used Avast and Trend Micro Housecall and MBAM and Spybot.

 

I am now doing a system restore to 10-10-15 so we shall see how that goes. Fingers crossed!!!

[bodminman]

System Restore seems to have sorted the issue out. So now I'll have to keep an eye out on the updates etc and see which one breaks it again!