weird computer behavior - ideas?

[mrsbrown]

When I get home from work I turn on my computer.

About 10-15minutes later, I can start to access the internet.

In that 10-15minutes, I can

• successfully ping the router address


• successfully look at stuff on a network computer via windows explorer.

I can't:

• go to the router address (ie 192.168.0.1) via a web browser (I've tried three)


• surf


• check my email


• login with my LJ client

What's going on?

Comments

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Probably the router, I'd say. Did you give it a good hard kick and/or unplug it, let it rest a minute, then plug it back in?

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

I can surf from my pda as soon as I get a wireless connection with no trouble at all and no one else has this problem.

but yes, it could be the router.

[juzbunny.livejournal.com]

Some more ideas - some app can be hogging your system; an av can be updating it's definition files; your computer is having trouble accessing the dns server that your isp uses...

There are a few possibilities. After you first start up, do things like Word go slowly? Can you browse immediately if you start Windows in Safe Mode With Networking?

Lol, let me know if you would like me (or James, doesn't he do this too) to have a go.

[mr-bassman.livejournal.com]

Yes I do this stuff...

More info:
W2K system
All patches installed
Firefox
Enough Ram
Wireless Connection 54Mbit/sec


Consistent behavior:
As Mrs Brown said there is this delay thing and it looks to be a TCP/IP thing more than a Hardware/local network thing.

The delay comes from the Applications and not the Wireless.
The one of the more safe types of protocol is being used.
I de-malwared as much as possible.

I'm thinking it has more to do with some cruddy torrenty type of software that is hogging resources and eventually timing out.
A "Highjack this" session will happen when I can get around to it.

In that 10-15 minute window..

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

... can you ping/trace an outside address? (I presume not). It seems that the switching, local area capacity is all fine, but the routing is broken.

Interesting that it seems to fix itself after a period of time... I'd be checking what processes are running...

[sacred-chao.livejournal.com]

All your local stuff works and all your net stuff doesn't. Clearly it's just the internet settling overnight and you get an airlock in the top of the tubes. It takes about 10-15 mins for your machine to bleed the system.

[fa11ing-away.livejournal.com]

Gremlins must be misbehaving again.
It's always the gremlins*

Holla! This is Corinna. I thought I'd do a bit of net stalking and friend you on LJ. Welcome to the flist :)

*otherwise known as Windows.