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21. March 2012, 18:25:07

Beatzer

Posts: 3

Very slow internet in Opera

Hi,

I have a problem with Opera 11.52 where my internet connection suddenly go very slow. It happens every now and then and I don't know what triggers it. Checked with speedtest and got that I have 0.88 Mb/s down and 0.05 Mb/s up as this link shows http://www.speedtest.net/result/1847891022.png

I instantly went to open Firefox to do the same test and got whole other numbers, that say I have 11.18 Mb/s down and 0.87 Mb/s up http://www.speedtest.net/result/1847877793.png

There are very big difference on the ping times too. I run Window 7 64-bit and please don't say I should upgrade Opera to 11.60 because then this problem is constant and not something that shows up a few times a week.

I'm greatful for any help or ideas on what can be wrong here because I can't find anything.

21. March 2012, 18:51:55

Luxor

Scotland

Posts: 70039

No difference between speeds when I checked with Opera and firefox.
Are you using turbo by any chance? as that is designed for use on dial-up connections and will actually slow down your speed if you are on broadband.
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21. March 2012, 19:43:18

Beatzer

Posts: 3

No I don't have Turbo running. The strangest thing is that it isn't all the time, but it happens few times a week. Tried to figure out what is triggering it but I can't see any thing I do different when it happens.

3. April 2012, 05:31:33

arangi1

Posts: 3

I have the same problem. It got Much worse after downloading the last two updates. I'm presently on Version 11.62. It appears the longer I am online the slower it gets.
I've tried clearing all the cache history ect and that appears initially to make a difference and then it just got slower and slower, with pages taking up to a minutes to fully load all the data.
What can I do ? Any Ideas. Hopefully I'll get more responses than the last person . . .

3. April 2012, 07:09:50

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sgunhouse

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Posts: 65168

All pages?

What antivirus or "internet security" programs do you use?

9. April 2012, 01:39:30

arangi1

Posts: 3

I use ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version:9.3.014.000, but I don't think That's relevant as I have used Zone Alarm forever without any previous problems. This slow speed only seems to have happened since the last Opera Updates.

9. April 2012, 01:42:57

arangi1

Posts: 3

"All pages?"
Not necessarily All Pages, some pages loading with out problem, but the more data on the the page the longer it takes to load.
Opera Home Page for example, can take over a minute to load at times.

12. May 2012, 10:18:51

planerare

Posts: 3

There is something wrong with Opera now. I got the same problem, much slower if u compare with Firefox, IE or Chrome. Its not a little problem u can see many of the users of Opera says the same. Don't know what they doing and now i must surf with Firefox instead. Many pages takes long time until it end loading and yes its big difference between Opera and Firefox. U can load the same pages at the same time and the page in Firefox shows the page much quicker. U can also give Opera a advantage and still not first, thats fukking strange, always seen that Opera was fastest but now its something strange with the browser.

23. June 2012, 03:16:43 (edited)

smihaila

Posts: 14

I am experiencing the same problem as you guys. Beginning with this Opera 12.0 official release (build 1467).
When using speedtest.net and the same speedtest server between opera and IE9, opera will show 7-8mbs download speed and a ping time of 24ms. IE9 will report a solid 25mbs and ping time of 16 ms - the latter values being consistent with what the former Opera 11.xy install were showing.

What's going on with the v12 release? Are the developers aware of this issue? I was an Opera fan until now, please don't make me return to other browsers!

I highly suspect the issue is cause by this new out-of-process isolation feature, which makes the plug-ins (such as Flash) to run from a separate process, names opera_plugins.exe.

Is there a way to disable the out-of-proc feature?

It's a shame that this is happening...

2. July 2012, 10:50:46

tntnt

Posts: 4

Same here, since ver. 1467.

My internet speed results in Speedtest.net are way slower in Opera. In IE9, the results are at maximum.
Tried at my 3 PC's.

Is this going to be fixed?

18. December 2012, 09:50:17

Biges

Posts: 22

Do developers even care? There ary many bug reports like these, but nobody responsible seems to care. Do I really, really have to dump Opera forever and switch to Chrome?

18. December 2012, 12:52:00

smihaila

Posts: 14

On the other related Linux thread, it was being said that the 12.x slow internet issue had been fixed on windows.
But not according to my tests.

That is why I still prefer to keep my 11.x.
If the Opera team continues like this and disappoints us, I'll have to switch to Chrome soon - unfortunately.

18. December 2012, 23:01:55

acemcloud

Posts: 5

+1

Same problem here.

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