charlygiraffe

Hi Al, I also came across your suggestion this week and tried disabling both AVG Antivirus & PC Tools Firewall. This made no difference. As you say, I have now uninstalled AVG and installed Avast!. I have only tested for a short while but looks promising, Thanks for the advice, Happy Surfing! Charly

I have set the MTU back to the suggested 1432 on the router & PC. I have removed OpenDNS Servers. The router is set to obtain automatically, returning the servers 62.24.139.139 62.24.139.140 The PC is wired so I am not using the wireless functionality at the moment, except for a printer. Ipconfig /all Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-D3-F6-B2-54 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.248 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 20 March 2010 07:35:55 Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 23 March 2010 07:35:55

Thanks for the info Al, I forgot about this MTU setting, but suspect this may be the the way forward. The MTU for my PC is set to 1500 & router to 1492. I read somewhere 1432 was recommended on the a Netgear router with my ISP. I also read the PC MTU should be set +8 on the router, so I changed this to 1440. Not sure if this is correct but its made little difference, may require some tweaking, I'll follow dslreports.com info, like you say this looks helpful info on the matter. Charly

My ISP is TalkTalk.

Every few minutes I receive the message IE cannot display the webpage, this even occurs if I attempt to connect to the router web interface on the LAN IP. Give it 30 seconds or so & a refresh will load the webpage. Occasionally the webpage will open but images will be missing or text in wrong sizes. I am running WinXP SP3, IE8, with a Netgear DG834Gv4 router (Firmware v5.01.14) I have similar connection errors on email & other internet reliant applications. While the error occurs I am still able to receive a reply if I ping a website or the router eg ping BBC - Homepage, ping 192.168.0.1 I have tried the following: The router, I have reset to factory, replaced the patch cable, used an alternative ethernet port, used automatic DNS & fixed DNS (My ISP & OpenDNS) The PC, I have used an alternative USB network adapter, used automatic DNS & fixed DNS (My ISP & OpenDNS) Disabled Windows DNSClient Service, reset WinSock