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Happy New Year!
Been having problems with Chromium based browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Opera and a couple others) all load very slowly for random time intervals (30s - 5 minutes or more). Videos will buffer indefinitely. It seems that the browser looses connection for random periods of time. I made sure Windows and browsers were up to date, cleared cache, cookies, ran Windows repair services, ensured drivers were up to date, changed DNS servers, and a couple other items which I can not recall currently. The problem only occurs with the one windows desktop (I have multiple different devices with multiple OS's that all run with no problems - internet is plenty fast). A couple sites/comment threads stated this is a known issue with Java, and developers were not focused on fixing that specific problem.
Any and all advice is appreciated.
Sam
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I'm not an IT guy, but if it was me, I would remove and reinstall those browsers one by one.
Troy
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To provide an update - I have tried the most common and not so common solutions (ensure ethernet card was not enabled for power saving, DNS flush/re-set, using Google DNS server address, using multiple browsers, and many more) that supposedly fix the problem, to include buying a brand new Windows 11 computer. A while ago this was an acknowledged issue (
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/07/2...), so I am thinking it is a factor, not sure if it is the primary factor. Anyone have any suggested resources to get to the bottom of the problem? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Sam
No. of Recommendations: 3
So after much perturbation, I finally found the issue and (temporary) fix. In summary, Intel NIC does IPv6 TCP checksum offload which breaks your connection, so I disabled IPv6 in my router. Now need to figure out what the disadvantages of disabling IPv6 is, and if Intel is fixing the problem.
Hope this helps someone else!
https://community.verizon.com/t5/Home-Internet-Fio...Sam
