Morning,

Thanks again for all the help with the network sharing issue I had a few weeks ago. I have a different issue now.

My desktop connects directly to my Netcomm ADSL2+ wireless router with an ethernet cable, and is the only device on the network to do so (all other clients are wireless).

Starting this morning the desktop is very slow to browse the internet. Either Firefox or IE have the same problem; loading the NZ Herald webpage (for example) takes almost a minute and Firefox sits on "Connecting to data.apn.co.nz" or www.google-analytics.com. Eventually the page loads but it still says it's loading something.

I did have DNS settings specified on the desktop machine but have changed both of these to be automatic, to no avail.

Yet if I try browsing to the NZ Herald from my laptop on the network (wirelessly) it loads immediately as it's meant to.

I've turned off Zonealarm on the desktop, and experimented with the DNS settings as above. All of this was fine until this morning and I haven't changed anything in my setup.

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks in advance.