My desktop took a nose dive. My tech that built my desktop for me thinks it's the Nic going down.

What I have.
Desktop pc XP OS
Verizon DSL
D-link
to cheesey verizon router.
I use firefox browser thunderbird mail client
I have hijack this
Also windoctor
and I forget the name but it starts with a Ka-something?

I'm looking for a education and some help.
It started out,..... coming home to find my SO let a friend in my den to wait for me.
When I walked in he was messing with my desktop and his Ipod. I was/am still not happy
about this at all. The PC was running like a slug. Not getting better yet.
These results are with avast and comodo OFF. I also did command prompt for yahoo it couldn't find it. A few other command prompts I have a screen shot of. Not familiar with the forum yet.
To know if you do attachments or outside hosted images.

If there is a screen shot tute on setting up DSL that would be great. I learn the best with visuals.

Here are the grim    test results.


::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 29 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 4 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/07 - 9:48pm
Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 256 sec
Tested from a 97 kB file and took 27.149 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 0.5 % of your hosts average (verizon.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-EIK538FVB
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

Appreciated.
I have been using these programs/methods to do these tasks.

adAware, spybot, O and O defrag, Avast, comodo, Firefox, thunderbird mail client.
I cleaned up and out over 600 junk temp files yesterday. I have 2 registery errors for some
silly garden site that I haven't gotten resolved and may not. I have 6 files that keep re-inventing themselves they are temp files and Thumbs.db files. I do avast boot scan once a week. I use
Crapcleaner now called The Cleaner I guess all the time. At the moment I have O and O defrag
doing a defrag on boot.

Is there a test to show what my DSL connections are and if they need to be corrected?
Is there a test to see if my d-link NIC is going down for the count?
 

command prompt ipconfig / all screen shot. Hope I'm doing this attachment right?







  Please contact mudmanc4 by PM regarding your attachment 

Here is the ping. From these results can anyone tell if it's a config problem or a D-Link/Nic failing? Or ?
Does anyone have a link to a tute with screen shots for setting up a DSL network? I use my laptop
with this router.

Ok getting better now. 

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 3000 Kbps about 3 Mbps (tested with 4096 kB)
Download Speed is:: 366 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/05/11 - 10:35pm
Bottom Line:: 52X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.8 sec
Tested from a 4096 kB file and took 11.186 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 51.42 % of your hosts average (verizon.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-NW1HT7VL4
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14