I purchased a Satellite A135-S4467 two weeks ago. Everything is good, but the biggest thing. When I use most websites, it takes about 25 seconds to load the new web page and change between pages. I brought it back to Best Buy and they used their wireless connection and the same thing happened. It is fast on some websites, but 80% of websites are REALLY slow. It seriously takes 25-30 seconds to load and to change between pages. It is very frustrating. It happens on this site. When I change between threads, it takes 25 seconds to open the new page.

The Geek Squad at best Buy said it was a Vista problem. I've been opening two web pages and then reading one, while the other loads (it's very frustrating). Are there any settings I might be able to change to speed this up to acceptable speeds? Or do I need to convert to XP?

I assume you have cable at your house and not dial-up. I dont use Vista, but have seen some people who have and dont like it for various reasons. You didnt say what browser you were using. If it is Internet Explorer (probably ver 7) try another browser which is not IE oriented and see if it is the browser. Try Opera or Firefox. If they are slow too like IE, then its probably a software/hardware problem on your laptop

Thanks for your reply. I tried Firefox and it was still slow. however, I started thinking it was likely my Spy Sweeper. I did some google searches and voila!!! I found the problem.

With Spy Sweeper 5.0, many people are having this same problem. You need to: uncheck the Keystroke Logger in the shields options. And also uncheck the Common Ad Sites under Shields.

After doing this, my internet speed was back to high-speed cruising! Yeah, I use high speed and it was really a pain when it was taking 25 seconds to load pages.

The worst part was I got the laptop at best Buy. I brought the laptop in to have their Geek Squad look at it. He pulled up some web pages using their wireless connection at the store and couldn't find the problem. Then he nodded his head and said well, it's probably Vista. I knew it couldn't be that slow, or Nobody would buy it. I am shocked the Geek Squad people didn't know how to fix this. They loaded everything on my computer when I bought it and must have more people complaining about this problem and Spy Sweeper.

I almost returned my laptop when they couldn't find the problem.

I'm happy now. I just hope others find this solution when they encounter this problem. Or find this thread.

Thanks again.

Just for troubleshooting, try Firefox and see if it has the same problems.

If so - could be anything.

If not, it could be IE or some plugin such as Antivirus IE plugin.

Try completely disabling AV for a few minutes and visit a safe site. Sometimes I've seen that with misbehaving AV http scanning.

From command prompt, do
route print

you should normally only have one 0.0.0.0 entry at the top. I've seen it where people force a corporate gateway into the route table. When away from the office, the same thing happens as dead gateway detection occurs.

Samething with DNS. Maybe your default DNS server is dead?

Vista does NOT LIKE Firefox v. 2.0.11, plain and simple. Firefox is constantly "Not Responding" when more than 3 windows are opened. Did not have this problem with earlier versions.

I have 2GB RAM, so that's not the problem. Also IE7 has none of Firefox's issues.