Posted 3 days ago

Browser slow to load pages.

Every single time I try and load an internet page spinning wheel and occasionally a message saying something like unusually high traffic detected.

Im running Windows 10 on a 3 or so year old desktop. I have Malwarebytes running in the-background for virus and malware protection. Nothing has been found on scans. I mainly use MS Edge as the browser.

I have completely given up using Nord as this was also causing speed issues.

The computer is almost next to the router. Speed tests show speeds to be as they should be. 

ipad usage on WiFi has no issues whatsoever. Neither does another desktop in the same room.

What should I be checking? 

Thanks.
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  1. TristanDeCoonha's avatar
    If Nord is like it's sister Surfshark then you should be able to get an idea of server load. Change your location to somewhere less loaded.
    Choose somewhere where they should be in bed at your time of use, or just pick the nearest location (edited)
    bozo007's avatar
    Windscribe does this quite well when you choose "Best location".
  2. Pájaro's avatar
    "Unusually high traffic" sounds an alarm bell.

    While you're in Task Manager, look at your WiFi / network adapter. At idle, what numbers is it reporting in terms of S: and R: Kbps or Mbps?
    adam.mt's avatar
    This! "Unusually high traffic" is not a Windows error message. Sounds like you are still running through a VPN, or your connection is being intercepted.

    Check installed programs and browser extensions.
  3. jameshothothot's avatar
    press control shift and escape or press start (windows key) and type in task manager
    click on performance

    see what the bottleneck is
    is it your c: drive or is it your processor maxing out?

    maybe you have some windows updates in the background. try and complete those

    do you have a hard drive or SSD? windows is terrible on hard drive

    maybe you have lots of random background apps
    click on processes and then cpu and see what is running in the background

    maybe you have lots of random addins or even out of date ones on your browser
    you could try and disable them

    but try and install a fresh browser
    try firefox or brave and if the same problem then it's not the browser

    if no problem then the browser could have dodgy add ons

    good luck!
    jameshothothot's avatar
    ps virus killers in the background can be annoying
    maybe you have multiple in the background competing with each other and analysing every webpage you go to

    i do have malwarebytes pro in the background
    but some of the other ones are usually more trouble than they're worth

    make sure they're fully uninstalled

    so checking processes will help

    also check on startup apps on task manager as you might have a lot of crap in the background though often they can be hard to get rid of - lurking even when stop them launching at the start
    eg old vpns i no longer use still want to load up and send my data to some random chinese server
  4. louiselouise's avatar
    Check the add-ons on your browser (I had a Youtube Downloader one that was playing up last week and was making all my tabs hang on Mozilla).

    Can you revert to default settings on your browser?
  5. david_buttle's avatar
    Run command promt as an adminstrator (right click window / start icon) then select command prompt admin.
    type in or copy and paste - netsh winsock reset
    exit command prompt and restart your machine.

    May help
  6. bluetang's avatar
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    Just popped back to say a big thank you to everyone who has replied. I will be working thru the replies and posting back but have some higher priorities this week including a funeral and poorly pet so it may not be for a few more days.
    Thanks again.
  7. bluetang's avatar
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    A bit of an update....

    For James

    Task manager – an enormous listof stuff I have no clue about but – in the very top first two columns – 1% CPU sometimes going up to 12 % but changing all the timeand 29% memory

    Background processes = 79 – Nord seems to take up 150mb and malware bytes 220mb being the largest in the list – MS Edge seems to be 70mb – everything else much lower.at the time of looking at this Nord was not in use. I’m considering uninstalling it

    Ssd – was 42 days since being last optimised so I optimised it.

    Start up processes – The following are High Impact = MS Edge and MS One Drive, Mailwasher Pro, Nord (Now switch off from start up)- there are 2 medium impact (Windows Security notification icon) Realtek HD Audio Manager – everything else in the list is already Off

    Memory – Install RAM = 16.0GB

    For LouiseLouise - I Have checked from MS browser add ons – It shows 2 – Malware bytes browser guard and Google Doc (although I don’t use this so could remove it)

    For Pajaro – with the computer idling the numbers being reported are S:0 kbpsR 0 kbps – whilst on that page PU = 1% - Memory 29% - Disk 1 SSD 0% = Disk 0 HDD 0%

    For David – I ran the netsh winsock reset – no noticeable improvement

    I have now completely uninstalled Nord and am pleased to report that things seem to be much better. I’m going to leave it at that as currently can’t spend much time with it but thanks again to you all including anyone I did not name. (edited)
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