Windows 10: Internet Connection is fine, programs have a massive delay for connecting to the internet.

My explanation : Whenever I start my computer laptop, Dell I try to connect to services such as Microsoft Edge. For a few seconds after starting up my computer, my ethernet does it's job perfectly and I'm able to search for anything that I want. However, this only lasts for a few seconds. I'm never prompted with an error, and when I am it's the usual "Could not connect to the internet, please check your settings." If I'm able to retry, I press the button to do so and it works smoothly, otherwise, if there is no error, it takes about 15 minutes before connecting to the internet. When I connect to a browser any browser, google, edge, opera It will usually take about 10-15 minutes before I'm able to search for anything. This isn't just for my browsers, whenever I try to open a program such as Steam, Visual Studio, or ROBLOX, or literally any program that needs to connect to the internet, I'm prompted with an error like "Could not connect to the internet" or "There was an error applying critical settings to the program please check your..." blah blah blah you get the idea.NO program works. However, the weirdest, and most baffling thing out of all of this, is that connections made through Virtual Machines windows 7 on VMware, for example, everything worksFINE, no errors ever. I don't know what causes it, but the only fix seems to be virtualizing my ethernet connection if that makes any sense.




Before you answer me : I want to say that I've been having this error for about 4 months now, I've had this pc for ~1 year and it's worked completely fine until I factory reset it. Then all of the errors above occur. The only thing that maybe caused the error is a corrupt system file. Anyway, here are some of the things I've tried:

• Flushing my DNS.
• Factory resetting my computer 3 times.
• Running the Windows Network Troubleshooter it said nothing is wrong, lol
• Contacting a Dell Support Rep Seriously, $100?
• I originally had this error before I got ethernet, installing ethernet fixed nothing.
• Taking the battery of my laptop out, and putting it back in, no luck there.
• Deleting/Disabling my firewalls, and antimalware, still no luck.
• Screaming at my computer for 3 hours straight.
• Uninstalling and reinstalling literally every single network related adapter related to my computer.
• Restarting my router.

I'd also like to note - I have a second laptop much slower than this one that connects to the internet fine.

This is really stressing, mainly because this a 500 dollar laptop, and I'm a 12 year old who doesn't really have the confidence to ask my parents to buy me another laptop. I have told them about this error, they can't seem to figure out how to fix it.

:)

 

Internet connection speeds

I'm really curious about this, considering the amount of hoopla every major internet connection provider likes to claim about their services, and many times exaggerated just to help their own sales . . .

So, with that in mind, anyone willing to post up their download/upload connection speeds, and we can see just how much of a difference there is in the various internet connection types.

Hit up Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test, choose the location closest to your home and begin the test, afterwards, copy and paste your result here. Also, please list what type of connection you have (dial-up, cable, DSL, VDSL, FiOS, etc) - if you are running through an ethernet connection, please also list whether it's a direct connection, or your LAN/WiFi connection speeds.

So, I guess I'lll start:

Verizon standard DSL - D-Link 802.11g 54Mbps

 

internet connection problem- help

my internet connection suddenly failed about 2 days ago. we had to power cycyle the the router and modem. the other computers on the same router network were able to connect. my computer upstairs still had the same problem. i am using my laptop now with the same eathernet connection my computer that doesnt get a connection with and the internet works fine on the laptop. it just randomly stoped working and idk what to do now. the cable is fine because i am able to use the laptop on it and the laptop doesnt get wireless so i know its not the cable. my computer is in the system specs. ive tried setting defualts in bios and that doesnt work either. ive turned my firewall off and that doesnt help either. any suggestions?

 

internet not connecting

Hi,

I recently reformatted a computer and when I tried to connect to the internet it wouldn't work. The computer is an IBM and I have loaded Windows XP.

All the settings are the same with internet connections as the settings in my other computers in the house but it still wont connect.

Using cable and on ADSL.

Thank you.