Guys i dont know what the heck is wrong with my connection but its been like a week or so that its been downloading stuff at super slow speeds !!!
First of all i have dial up (yes i know its crap) but i have had the same dial up at the same house for soon to be 4 years(very lame) yet my usual download speeds are at 3.5+ kbs...why is it at 0.1-1.5 kbs now? i cant stand it!!! its so slow... i dont know why or what made it slow down -.-,i have tried alot of stuff...oh and im even using DownloadAccelaratorPlus which is also making me feel worse that im having slower download speeds -.-
Please Help! please...
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 Nov 3 2005, 4:36 pm
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Nov 3 2005, 5:54 pm
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Sniper Joe
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Maybe it is spyware or adware. Run a check and clean it.
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That happened to me once, I have like 3 Mbps (or is it MBps I forget) and my provider maxed me out at 800 kbps because I went over of connections to my computer because hosting wasn't allowed. I know this was with cable, i'm not sure if it's different because it is dial up.
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Sniper Joe wrote:
Maybe it is spyware or adware. Run a check and clean it. And if that doesn't help, ring up your ISP and tell them about the problem. They may have reduced your speed for some reason (maybe you went over some kind of limit), or it may be a technical problem on their end. Or perhaps something about your phone lines was changed and they're now much more lossy than they were before. This happenedly suddenly, right? It wasn't a gradual degradation? | |
there are several trojans that start using up network connections to propogate themselves to other machines. check out the tools at http://www.sysinternals.com/ specifically these:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Diskmon.html using these, you should be able to see what programs are using your net connection, sucking down bandwidth. if not, then i'd ask your ISP to do a check on your line. if you are using cable, and in an area with many people also using cable, remember that you are sharing the line with all those other people near you. if several people are hogging the line like with p2p downloads), then others will suffer. | |
That is a myth Mr.mouse. My brother lives with a room mate, his roommate is downloading 24/7 at high speeds, and normally uploading too. My brother's connection is every bit as fast as mine, and I live in the middle of nowhere, so I say to thee, where is the logic? Anywho, ya, that is an old myth, it might have been true way back when, but it is not true today(Perhaps my cable provider just does a good job of making sure there is plenty of bandwidth). I had a simular problem with one of my machines, no other computers in the house had that problem. I am certain it was not a virus or anything close, but reinstalling windows fixed the problem, my guess is that either my network drivers or window's networking procs got broked.
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Scoobert wrote:
That is a myth Mr.mouse. sorry, but that is a fact based on that particular technology. a fat cable pipe is shared amoungst many users. no-one is garaunteed access to the whole pipe itself (in fact some ISPs used to throttle-back cable modems so that you don't hog too much - but *that* practice may no longer apply now-a-days since cable pipes have larger bandwidths). you may be out in the middle of no-where, but i suspect you are just an off-shoot of another line that is closer to a major city, mall, or neighborhood with many users, or your ISP. from wikipedia: 'Users in a neighborhood share the available bandwidth provided by a single coaxial cable line. Therefore, connection speed can vary depending on how many people are using the service at the same time. Often the idea of a shared line is seen as a weak point of cable Internet access. From a technical point of view, all networks, including DSL services, are sharing a fixed amount of bandwidth between a multitude of users — but because cable networks tend to be spread over larger areas than DSL services, more care must be taken to ensure good network performance.' Perhaps my cable provider just does a good job of making sure there is plenty of bandwidth that is more likely, since the width/speed of cable pipes has gone up a bit in recent years. regardless of the cause, your ISP ought to be able to do a series of 'reverse pings' or other similar diagnostics to find out whether it is your modem or the line itself. or, as you suggested, windows is just fubar and needs a lobotomy. | |
I have dial-up also, but I download about 22.3 kbs when it starts, then goes down slowly until about 5+ kbs. Viruses/Trojans/Adware/Spyware can all slow down your computer. Going a long time without a reboot can also make your computer slower. Umm...Oh yea, make sure that there aren't any 'hidden' programs running in the background. And too much memory usage can slow down your computer.
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I've noticed that (assuming you Save Target As) that the download is already in progress while you're still deciding where to place the file. Only after do you pick a location to save will it start to count, and it treats everything you have already as under 1 second.
At least, this happens to me. When I had dialup 5 KB/sec was normal to me too but the computer lied a lot about the speed if I took a while to place the file. | |
yup- windows is notorious for its quirky calculate-speed-on-the-fly method for downloads, especially at the start. the first few seconds is just taking what has been downloading up to that point and divided by the number of seconds since you provided the download spot (the program gets stored in a temporary location until then). once it 'catches up', it then begins to reflect a more accurate download speed.
you'll never-ever get 22kbs on a 56k modem unless you use some new wave funky lossy compression (which is useless for programs anyway)- the technology just down not allow it. but 4-5kbs is a decent average for 56k dial up. a pristine and perfect line might yield close 7kbs if you are lucky. | |