GF's Laptop not loading pages now and again

[BloomerzUK]

Hi People,

Stumped on this one. My GF moved to Glasgow recently as an Au Pair with a family. They have a Wifi network and she connects to it fine with the WPA-PSK password and such. The internet is completely fine. I can remote to her machine using LogMeIn and there is no lag atall, I can take full control with no hiccups. It even happens when I am remoted one.

Thing is.. when it comes to loading pages, either in Chrome, Firefox or even dreading IE.. it simply doesn't.

Sometimes it loads fine.. comes up straight away e.g. Facebook comes up fine.. then when you reload a page.. it doesn't load.. goes to server cannot be found..

Ran a speed test remotely and the only thing bad was the ping which was 108ms to the nearest server. I also turned off DNS Pre-Fetching in Chrome, to no avail

Any ideas guys/gals?

 

[JN]

It might be worth running a contunuous ping tests to see if there are any drop-outs anywhere by using:

ping www.facebook.com -t

But it does sound like a DNS issue, so you could also try the following when you are unable to connect and see what it tells you:

nslookup www.google.com

Aside from that does sound very strange.

 

[Youngie1337]

I've been getting this quite often tbh, happened when I installed an old Winsock 6.0 plugin for .NET... there is a Winsock fix for it, might be worth a look at Googling Winsock Fix.

 

[BloomerzUK]

Thanks for the replies people. Jim, I will give that a go certainly. I will look into the WinSock thing as well.

Will change her DNS to 8.8.8.8 also, which is Google's DNS server.

 

[mrapoc]

Try opendns

most reliable in my experience