Help fix my internet before I smash it with a hammer

I hear that... very frustrating... welcome to the wonderful world of outsourcing... magically transforming Customer Service to Customer Disservice. Businesses have a way of treating their customers like cheap dates. It's funny how it's always someone who speaks fluent English who signs you up for the service but need tech support and you get a service tech who speaks in aborigine pops and clicks to guide you through the self destruct process. Fun

I might suggest running a memory hog app that is not internet related- like photoshop if you have it- see how it performs to determine the likelihood that it's your modem and not your computer.

 

Any suggestions on what's a good memory hog application(Minus music and Oregon trail II i basically have nothing on my computer that didn't come with it) google Earth maybe?

 

Does google earth require internet?

Don't know what all is on your computer... if I had those powers I'd have long ago abused them and either be dead, obscenely rich, or in prison.

 

I think it does, but with my brower, gigantic music folder and windows media player open too google earth works pretty decently from what'd I expect from my computer

 

Well if I were in your shoes I'd google the issues and look for discussion forums for fresh thinking from people more knowledgeable than myself. I'm as qualified to render tech support as I am to guide a blind man through brain surgery.

Good luck and hope you don't have to resort to using a hammer! lol

 

Actually one more basic question, what is the average memory firefox or any browser should be using, right now mine is using circa 70,000k's doing nothing but being on this page, and I recall this number use to be a hell of a lot lower I think

 

Mine is fluctuating between 237,000 and 241,000 k with five tabs running.

 

Alright I guess shit has just gone up on the internet then, I remember it use to always hover around 30,000k

 

Opera runs smaller than FF... KMPlayer is a good light on RAM media player.. so is mediamonkey...

 

maybe get a program like Glary Utilities.. which will help you clean up your computer and make it run smoother

 

I followed these instructions and ever since then my internet works a little faster and things seem to load faster

http://www.switched.com/2009/03/03/how-to-shut-off-startup-programs-windows/

 

oh.. i dont know what the deal is with your computer Syd.. but on my older comp.. which had only like 128 or 256 cannot remember.. i ran TinyXP... its a stripped down version of XP that gets rid of all the bloat and loads only the essentials.. saving a lot of ram.. i also currently run it.. it rarely.. and i mean rarely crash

 

Google Chrome ended my internet browsing problems