Slow Internet With Broadband

Internet access can be slow for a variety of reasons:

1. Your DSL connection (if you have DSL) is not working properly. You can usually check the statistics of your connection by browsing your modem. Do you have DSL or cable? You can test your connection speed here:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/speedtest

2. You are trying to access sites that are slow. These Dell forums are often very slow even when other sites are fast. Did you try other sites?

3. There is something wrong with your machine, but this is not normally the problem.

4. Sometimes just resetting (power off and on if there is no other way to reset) the modem will make a poor connection start working again.

Peter

You still didn't say what kind of connection you have. Some people have found that DSL connections can be affected by fluorescent lighting and their speed drops when the street lights come on or when they turn on their internal lighting.

It is also common for sites to be slower in the evening when people come home and access them. The more people using them, the slower they appear. Cable connections might be even more susceptible to increased usage in the same apartment or neighborhood because they share common bandwidth resources.

Peter

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@jmwills wrote:

If this is cable then you can probably blame this on the kids in the neighborhood as you all are pulling from the same node. However, I would do a thorough scan for spyware especially a rogue mail server program.

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that goes for dsl too... whats the rated speed of your connection plan from your isp too?....