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I have a PC that has equally severely degraded performance across all browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome), however the underlying connection seems ok (pings google at 40ms) and the other PC I have on the same hub is fine. Local apps also run fine. I've run the obvious ad-aware, McAffee, CCleaner scans. What could be causing this?
UPDATE:
When running Charles proxy, things go back to normal! Any ideas?
Yarin
Posted 2010-11-19T22:01:54.020
Reputation: 366
@Everett- This sounds right, but can you elaborate? How do we fix this? A Clue- When I run the Charles proxy program, it DOES temporarily fix things... – Yarin – 2010-11-20T14:27:40.537
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My assumption is this is what you are talking about: http://www.charlesproxy.com/ If your browsers have been configured to use a proxy (another device/program that intercedes to provide web connectivity/protextion), and it isn't there, your browsers have to timeout waiting for it before they can connect to a website. You likely have auto proxy detect/configuration turned on in preferences in your browsers. In IE go to Internet Options, Connetions Tab, Lan settings (bottom right hand corner) and review what is in the window that opens. Is is configured to look for a script or use a proxy?
– Everett – 2010-11-20T14:54:10.0931Record the settings to use proxies from all of your browsers. Then remove the settings and see if this fixes it. If it does your proxy isn't running/isn't configured correctly while you use your browser tries to use it. – Everett – 2010-11-20T15:01:43.287
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Or, @Yarin, you might be using some system wide proxy settings (like on a Mac: somewhere in the network settings) when not explicitly using some other proxy. In Firefox you have many options: 1) No proxy; 2) Auto-detect proxy settings for this network; 3) Use system proxy settings (this is the default setting in Firefox 3.6.4 and above!); 4) Manual proxy configuration. What if you choose 1) there?
– Arjan – 2010-11-20T15:13:40.1371Arjan's right. AND Maybe when you installed charlesproxy it went through and configured all your browsers to use it, and this is why all your browsers are slow, except when chrlesproxy is running. – Everett – 2010-11-20T15:30:11.920
1Ah, indeed, I figured Yarin installed Charles after you mentioned the word "proxy", but maybe it was already installed prior to that. @Yarin? – Arjan – 2010-11-20T15:41:37.480
1@Arjan@Everett- I installed Charles after the prob, so it was not the cause. Fiddling with FireFox proxy settings DID have effect, but we've since narrowed down the culprit- The McAfee Firewall. Turning it off brings us back to speed... So I think a call to their support team is the next step. Sincere thanks to you guys for sticking with this-! – Yarin – 2010-11-21T02:41:27.950