Google Chrome Errors From Hell

JordanN

Anyone know what's the source behind these errors?

ERR_TIMED_OUT

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR

I get these errors periodically throughout the day and it turns my internet browsing experience into straight up dial-up.

I've flushed my sockets, cache, DNS. I've run ipconfig /renew. Restarted my PC. All my drivers are up to date.

Weirdly, I can browse the internet just fine on my phone. It's my computer and Chrome that just goes berserk all of a sudden.

Also, I'm not using any Avast anti-virus. I only have Windows Defender. But I never had these problems before. This crap just started showing up randomly.

m4dcow

I know there have been issues with posting images for some people and the Vanilla team have been doing things to fix it, so the errors you are getting may be to do with that.

Eric Chadwick

Do you get it everywhere on the net, or just here?

I'd suggest checking with your ISP.

JordanN

Eric Chadwick said:

Do you get it everywhere on the net, or just here? I'd suggest checking with your ISP.

The first time I got these errors was when I was accessing Polycount. Although eventually it spread and every website had them.

A new Chrome update finally just came out and now everything seems to be loading faster. I looked around on the internet and I saw multiple people got the same error so it had to be an internal Chrome issue. Hopefully this new version I'm using completely weeds it out.

bitinn

First thing to try: check if changing your dns to google public dns helps.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN is really a domain config problem, if you are visiting a major website, that's quite unlikely to happen. So checking against public dns is the best way:

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002748793-Intermittent-error-on-Plesk-websites-DNS-PROBE-FINISHED-NXDOMAIN

EDIT: ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR is basically the HTTP2 protocol handshake error, again, usually this issue is caused by website config problem.

However, there is one other possibility: your machine's time, are they correct? This may cause some issue too.

JordanN

bitinn said:

First thing to try: check if changing your dns to google public dns helps.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN is really a domain config problem, if you are visiting a major website, that's quite unlikely to happen. So checking against public dns is the best way:

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002748793-Intermittent-error-on-Plesk-websites-DNS-PROBE-FINISHED-NXDOMAIN

EDIT: ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR is basically the HTTP2 protocol handshake error, again, usually this issue is caused by website config problem.

However, there is one other possibility: your machine's time, are they correct? This may cause some issue too.

By machine time, do you mean the literal system clock & date?
Yes, it's correctly synced. 

I also just changed to the google public DNS.

poly_troubleshoot

Troubleshooting slow internet involves the same process every time.

-Update all your software 

-Test multiple devices on the same network. It may just be one device or even just an application on that device 

-Test multiple sites. If only one site fails, it is not a browser issue. If more than one site fails...

-Test those sites in multiple browsers. If  they all fail, then it’s a systems issue. Try a new user. If not, then it is an issue with the browser.

-If the issue is indeed limited to the application (in this case the browser), then disable all the extensions and flush the cache. Re-enable the extensions one by one to see what was the issue.

If you want to speed up your internet in general, use Cloudflare’s DNS 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1

JordanN

I've done all the above. My phone still connects better to the internet than my computer does for some reason.

I downloaded another browser yesterday (Opera) but I found the performance was even worse. This was coming off a fresh install with no extensions/plugins so I found that to be really weird.

Some sites load faster than others but they all still succumb to slowing down like molasses. I'm not having this issue with my phone where it can still access a website. It's only on my computer that there are "pauses" or "breaks" before it starts dwindling forever.

Before, it use to be I updated my GPU drivers whenever I was having really bad internet connection. It sounds weird but I always saw improvements when that happened. But now, even when my GPU driver is up to date, I'm still getting these annoying errors or constant hang ups.

Eric Chadwick

Look into any new software installed.

Task Manager is also your new friend. Ctrl Shift Esc . To see what's hogging network bandwidth when it's happening.

JordanN

Eric Chadwick said:

Look into any new software installed.

Task Manager is also your new friend. Ctrl Shift Esc . To see what's hogging network bandwidth when it's happening.

Is it normal to keep seeing 0 kp/s or mb/s? 

That's what keeps showing up for me, even when I look at applications like Chrome.

Eric Chadwick

It's the peaks you should be watchful of.

Check the running Processes while spiking, and sort by the spike tyoe ( in this case, network).

poly_troubleshoot

I forgot a step. Try both browsers in a new user to isolate if the issue is within system space or user space.

JordanN

Bumping this thread for a possible solution.

Edit: Downloading the newest GPU driver helped with the internet, but it made all my 3D modeling apps slower. 

Since it's more important to get my work done, I rolled back my drivers until I need faster internet again.

Edit 2: I tried downloading new drivers again, this time though device manager. I'm having better success.