To start off I have run many antivirus and anti spyware PROGRAMS, ad aware, norton etc. and the problems I am experiencing occur both in internet explorer and mozilla firefox. Some pages load fine, like gmail and google (although the search in google and logging in in gmail are taking longer I think, perhaps it is just me though). On facebook, the connection always times out. I WENT to download safari, and the download column on the left side also had a message that said "connection timed out" although the rest of the page loaded fine. I experience this problem with other pages as WELL, these are just the ones that come to mind. As you can see, this page loaded fine. Also, I checked in the networking portion of task manager and I am NEVER am using more than 10% of my bandwidth. I am using Windows XPMore info...
What type of connection ? ?
Any recent hardware/software changes ? ?
Running a firewall ? ?
What version of Norton ( and why ) ? ?
How many USERS on this machine ? ?
Any DLoad managers and/or toolbars installed ? ?
When did this start happening ? ?