My Downloads are taking forever!!! Please help

Many times users think the reason for the slowness is their computer, however were we need to look when you experience this type of issue, is normally your internet connection. They have slowness problems when streaming a video, browsing sites or uploading files.

I recommend browsing to the following website to perform a speed test: http://speedtest.net
follow the link and click the green button to perform the speed test make sure you click in the right place as they have some other tools to check your system diagnostics, keep in mind this is a web-based application so if you are prompted to download something you can go ahead and cancel that.

Speedtest.net is a great resource to check your internet connection, when you're having connectivity problems or experiencing slowness downloading, uploading or browsing the internet. Run a speed test to see what your download and upload.

ad speeds are accurate with your current internet connection it should be pretty close around 60+ or higher of what they are promising to provide. Other things like other users on the same network or background applications that are connecting to the internet and downloading or uploading data.

Some of the applications that you want to look out for are file sharing applications like:
File sharing:
DropBox.com , Box.com
Any torrent applications
for example:  Utorrent, Bittorent and others...
picture sharing applications
for example: Shutterfly, snapfish
Also any cloud backup applications can cause your internet to run extremely slow.
These applications some times run quietly in the background, shutting them off in the task manager or changing the applications settings can great improve your connectivity issues.

My computer is running slow but has a good processor and plenty of RAM

Dell vistro 64-Bit Operating System

Windows 7 

4 GB RAM i7 

2 Hardrives

Computer was running extremely slow I tried adding some extra RAM but the PC wouldn't pick it up. I checked the processes and there was no unknown applications running so here are the steps I took to resolve this issue. 

I removed the 2 extra sticks of RAM in case they were corrupt since it seems that the PC was not able to identify them. 

I did a DELL system test and it did report some errors on the secondary hard drive. I ran a check disk and all seemed to check out ok. However I still went ahead and removed the second hard drive and everything seemed to go back to normal. 

I also did a disk defrag and a disk clean up, when I did a disk clean up there was a huge amount of system memory error logs and were taking up 230GB of space on the computer I cleaned that up and the computer when completely back to normal.

Finally Google Chrome Resolving Host issue resolved!!!

I came across this issue a few weeks ago, were Google Chrome just sits on "Resolving Host" I would see this at the bottom left hand corner, for over 20 seconds sometimes even minutes. I tried everything to Resolve this issue, here is a list of all the things I tried:

1. Change DNS settings to Google 8.8.8.8 secondary  8.8.4.4
2. Tried changing DNS to Comcast (my local ISP) 75.75.75.75 secondary 75.75.76.76
3. Ran AVG Virus scan and Optimization
4. Ran Norton Virus scan and Network Check
5. Tried diffrent Internet Connections Timewarner, and Comcast 
6. MalwareBytes Scan
7. Uninstalled many applications that I thought my interfere with my connection
8. Reset the default settings in Google Chrome
9. Checked the Proxy settings in Chrome and tried several configurations 

Solution: 
None of this worked Here is the only thing that seems to fix it after several frustration hours trying to get this to work. I decided to set a Static IP instead of a dynamic IP inside my connection settings. After doing this my browser went back to Normal or maybe even faster its extremely fast!!! I'm running on a T1 line, Windows 7 with 8GB of RAM I didn't see this type of solution anywhere online so I hope it helps anyone having this issue. 

Overall I don't know exactly what caused the issue, but setting a STATIC IP was the only fix that did the trick. 

Free ways to test and improve your websites SPEED

Testing the speed of your website is important, most humans will click out of a page if it takes more than 5 seconds to load. The internet is FAST! and we are use to browsing it that way...however finding the right tool can be a challenge. I found several FREE tools that did work in improving my website(s) performance

THE CHALLENGE
After creating my directory press website http://georgiahealthcareprofessionals.com I started noticing that after adding many listings that the site was very slow! Before I looked into what the issue is was I knew I need to find out the "Speed" and away to test the website in real time
(I also started looking for Wordpress Plugin solutions which I will explain in another blog)

THE SOLUTIONS
Here are some of the tools I found:

TIP: before you start testing the site you should visit http://speedtest.net to check the speed of your internet connection,

1. The one I most commonly use is http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#
t provide a very accurate ready of your site speed in real time.
You can also choose the location you want your site tested from and the current time it has Newyork, Texas, or the Netherlands.

Another great tool right in your browser:

2. Google Chrome
As you might already know Google Chrome is a great browser! it's a very powerful browser too, you can use the inspect element tool by right clicking anywhere on your site.
This will allow you to see the source file of your website broken up in to several sections:
Elements, Resources, Network, Scripts, Timeline, Profiles, Audits and Console.

The important one I would like to point out is the "Timeline" you can see how click record and reload your page and see the speed of your site and what might be causing high load times.