Slow Connection

[animal6]

HI

I was wondering if someone could help me. I live in Belfast and am an ex-NTL customer. For the past week or so it has been really slow when connecting to some web pages (sometimes 20-30minutes) and I'm getting alot of pop ups as well. I thought it may be a virus and downloaded Avast but I'm still having the same issues. I was just wondering if there was anything else I could do.

As you've probable guessed I'm not very technically minded and could do with really basic instructions.

Thanks in advance

[Illpalazzo87]

Not sure about your ads.. But seems to be some problem in belfast look around in a few of the posts on here and you will notice alot of people from belfast including myself have been having problems teh last few days.

[animal6]

Thanks a million for that. Just wanted to check it out before calling someone to come out and look at it

Thanks again

[Illpalazzo87]

No problem. Just hope you have luck convincing them to do soemthing,

[whydoIneedatech]

I have read on other forums about problems in Belfast this week and one thread said to try this below.

www.opendns.org and try their servers

[chickendippers]

If you're still getting pop-ups then that hasn't solved your computer problem though. I'd also recommend you download these spyware scanners:
http://www.lavasoft.com/single/mirror_download.php?f=g2Obc772A
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

[animal6]

Thanks a million -those tips seem to have done the trick. For some reason, there are still some websites I can't get into (like ebay) but I'll keep trying!

Thanks again