IE and Firefox run as slow as dialup on New PC

Just got a New HP 6210y. 6gb ram 640gb drive amd II x4 processor with windows 7 home premium.
Computer works fine, except when I try to browse the internet IT runs SLOW. Literally as slow if not slower than dial up. My other pc's (XP) on the network work just fine on the net. I have spent 4 or 5 hours trying to resolve this. I even restored the pc to the original manufacted setting and did a full restore with HP software.
I can copy files from another pc on my network to the win 7 pc just fine.

I have tried all of these things to no avail.

• I've disabled IPv6.
• I've run netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled and got the OK back from the Command Prompt.
• Updated to the latest drivers for my Nvidia Integrated NIC
• disabled TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4)
• booted to safe mode test browsing still SLOOOOOOOOW
• downloaded Files via Filezilla FTP that worked fine.. I know it is a different protocal than a browser, just checking.

OK OK I figured something out, If I disable windows firewall it works!!
This pc is going to my mom's and she doesn't have the greats hardware firewall at her house. What settings can I change in firewall and not leave the firewall off??

Or just try a 3rd party firewall like komodo or zone alarm.

dre@ms said:

Welcome buddy. Open network and sharing centre. Left side botton, click windows firewall.
Left side top, click allow programs thru firewall.
In the next page, check whether the browsers u use is listed and a check mark is present against it in the type of location u use.
If not present, click change settings, click allow another program.
From the list, select the one, if not present, browse for the exe.

Check whether ur issue is resolved.

I just tried this and it is still slow as dial up!. something in the firewall settings not sure what.......... I tried looking around but I am new to windows 7, not sure where to go to check to see if a port is being blocked etc.
Any other suggestions???