Re: HELP - LAN access has slowed to a crawl on one machine

allegro wrote:
The windows machine on which I do most of my work (and use for my
email client) has suddenly slowed to a crawl. I have cable modem
access and a wired, home LAN with a router. Router, modem and
computers all have fixed IP addresses. WAN access is a dynamically
assigned IP address (required).

Downloading email used to be virtually instantaneous. Now it takes
about 5 minutes per message per account (and frequently times out.)
Web pages take forever to come up in IE. I am accessing the web now
from my Mac on the same LAN, using the same cable modem and the
connection is, if anything, a little more responsive than usual. I
have also noticed that thrying to access the shared drives on the
machine with the problem also times out or is very slow from the
other computers. Even accessing the admin page from the router on
the bad machine times out most of the time.

I have tried all the usual things. (Including Anti-virus sweeps and
quite a few anti-spyware apps. Hijack this log shows nothing
unusual as far as I can tell. ) No Events in the windows logs. I am
at a loss as to figure out what to change to fix this problem.But I
urgently need to do so.

Tried a different NIC?

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