scoldilocks
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Not sure if this is the right forum for this, so feel free to move.
I don't remember when this started, but I am having a lot of trouble with DNS taking a long time to resolve both at home and at one other location (my client's office). Both are wired ethernet connections through a router. It is ruining my productivity as I have to have a lot of tabs open and visit a lot of sites throughout the day for work. It is slow across all websites and all browsers. I can see Chrome reporting that it is looking up parts of the page, waiting for various domains to respond, then "resolving DNS". Page load times can be ridiculously slow, if not painful (especially at my client's office).
Anecdotally, it seems to get progressively worse the more time I spend on the machine during the course of the work day or post rebooting the machine. Other times, it's reasonably ok. It is not present on every network I access. For example working on wifi at a location other than home or my client's office.
The only fix I have tried that seems to have made any difference is to assign myself a static IP address at home. This is obviously impractical as a permanent solution and the impact is slight at best.
Below is a list of everything I've tried to solve it (probably not in order), followed by a list of things I have not tried. I have also attached tracert results using CNN.com.
Not tried:
Please see attached for Sys Info on Asus notebook running Windows 8.1 x64
Additional equipment:
Any ideas or help greatly appreciated. I can't take it anymore.
View attachment System Info.zip
I don't remember when this started, but I am having a lot of trouble with DNS taking a long time to resolve both at home and at one other location (my client's office). Both are wired ethernet connections through a router. It is ruining my productivity as I have to have a lot of tabs open and visit a lot of sites throughout the day for work. It is slow across all websites and all browsers. I can see Chrome reporting that it is looking up parts of the page, waiting for various domains to respond, then "resolving DNS". Page load times can be ridiculously slow, if not painful (especially at my client's office).
Anecdotally, it seems to get progressively worse the more time I spend on the machine during the course of the work day or post rebooting the machine. Other times, it's reasonably ok. It is not present on every network I access. For example working on wifi at a location other than home or my client's office.
The only fix I have tried that seems to have made any difference is to assign myself a static IP address at home. This is obviously impractical as a permanent solution and the impact is slight at best.
Below is a list of everything I've tried to solve it (probably not in order), followed by a list of things I have not tried. I have also attached tracert results using CNN.com.
- Ran full virus and malware scans - all clean
- Unchecked IPv6
- Using Google DNS on IPV4
- Unchecked auto detect proxy sever
- Examined hosts file - it's empty
- Flushed DNS on PC
- Flushed DNS cache in Chrome (primary browser, but issue is across all browsers)
- Disabled "turn off this device to save power" for all network adapters
- Ran netsh winsock reset
- Disabled Bonjour in services
- Removed all but essential Chrome extensions (primary browser, but again, issue is across all browsers)
- Uninstalled iTunes
- Uninstalled Norton, turned on Defender
- Rolled back network adapter driver to an OEM version.
- Set static IP address
- Typical Speedtest.net results: 125Mbps download, 13Mbps upload, ping 9ms
Not tried:
- Replacing my home router (which won't help when I'm on other networks)
- Disable "detect IP flooding" - I tried to locate this in my router and modem settings, but neither had access to this.
Please see attached for Sys Info on Asus notebook running Windows 8.1 x64
Additional equipment:
- Modem: Motorola Surfboard (SB6141)
- Router (at home): Linksys E4200, Wireless N dual-band
Any ideas or help greatly appreciated. I can't take it anymore.
View attachment System Info.zip
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 x64
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus Q550-LF
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-4500U
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel(R) HD Graphics Family, NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer S231HL
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080