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I've said befor that for me chrome sporadically has problems with "reset connection", it's now happening all the time on various prowsers (Opera and IE too) making internet almost unusable.

Router & connection are fine if the internet radio is anything to go by, any ideas? I'm about to look into it, but google is the worst affected site ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 2:01 pm
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I presume you've tried disabling Anti-Virus, uninstalling any plug-ins, updating Flash etc?


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 2:07 pm
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Use something like CCleaner to get rid of cache/history and what-have-you, then switch computer [u]and[/u] router off and on again. Every router I've ever had has needed a re-start every once in a while after it started dropping the connection.


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 2:12 pm
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Flash is fresh, will look into others, ta, disabling anti-virus sounds risky!..

Why doesn't this shit just work?


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 2:15 pm
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Well disabling extensions in IE and ccleaner seems to have helped a bit, ta.


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 2:26 pm
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...for about 60 seconds, back to square zero now.


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 2:28 pm
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Anything that gets "in between" your browser and the internet has to be suspect. That will include any extensions (in Chrome, it's Spanner - Settings - Extensions) you've installed plus any AV. If you've installed multiple AV over the years, remnants of them might still be interfering and, indeed, tripping over each other.

As always, a clean install of the OS and Apps will tend to sort these out but it's a step you might not want to take.

Why don't they always work? It's because no one else will have installed/uninstalled/modified/updated their system exactly the way that you have over the years. When I worked in IT and we were dealing with thousands of systems, the #1 goal was that they were all maintained exactly the same. That meant we had a very good chance of any tested changes working on all of them.


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 2:33 pm
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I've said befor that for me chrome sporadically has problems with "reset connection

Funnily enough I've had that a bit last week so it's possible there has been an update that caused a problem (there were a lot of updates this Thursday IIRC). I would either use system restore to roll back to a week ago and see if that fixes it or use reliability and performance ( assuming you are Vista/7) to see if anything was installed or updated in the last few days.


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 3:36 pm
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Do a malware scan. http://www.malwarebytes.org/


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 4:11 pm
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Same problem for non-pr0n sites ?


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 4:18 pm
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"System restore" you say?

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Now it won't boot up :/


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 5:23 pm
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Ah, booted up now, "just" needed 20m to do so :!


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 5:33 pm
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Appears to be less fubared than previous so far, ta.


 
Posted : 17/06/2012 5:36 pm
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Seems like the system might also need cleaning. Get some antivirus. For more on Internet browsers and their updates, check this out
http://www.ihelpline.com/Internet%20Browsers/I32?3p=1


 
Posted : 18/06/2012 10:17 am