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Painfully Slow Internet Browsing, High Ping
Hello. In the last 3 or 4 days, my desktop computer running Windows 7 64-Bit has been practically unable to browse internet pages, play online games, or load YouTube videos. I don't know what caused this, and nothing jumps out at me suggesting what might be causing this. Any help would be really appreciated, as I'm going back to school in a few days and I need my desktop to be able to use the internet (though I'm not completely sure it's not my own home network).
Anyway, some information I think is important:
-using RoadRunner service with cable modem and Linksys wireless G router
-I'm connected wirelessly with a TRENDnet wireless N PCI adapter
-the issue is very recent, with no major hardware/software changes to suggest a cause
-I browse with Google Chrome, though I've checked to make sure the issue exists with IE and FireFox
-every so often it regains sufficient connection to load pages at a reasonable speed for about 5 minutes
-my laptop, sitting on the same desk, has a perfectly fine connection (I'm using it to write this)
-very strange: my laptop has 3/5 bars on the network/sharing icon, while my desktop actually has a full 5/5!
I hope this information can help some of you figure this out. If you have any questions or need me to post screens of configs or whatever, I'll do my best to get them up.