why is my internet slow?

Answer 1

Could be a number of things. If you are on a cable system, your neighbors could be using a lot of bandwidth; maybe some kid has discovered BitTorrent or something. Your ISP could be oversubscribed; meaning it's a poor quality ISP and they've bought far less bandwidth than they've sold to their customers, so there is a huge traffic jam at the ISP. Or, the ISP's upstream ISP could be congested.

It's also possible that your computer has some cruft in it that keeps it from running well. Does the computer run well otherwise? How old is it? What operating system are you running? How many programs do you have running? Try rebooting it and running only the Internet browser and see if that improves anything. Make sure you have enough memory; at least 256 MB, preferably 512 MB.

Try running a speed test: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ . See how it compares to what you expect to get from your connection.

It almost doesn't need to be mentioned but try more than one or two websites before you conclude your connection is bad.

If you can do it, try accessing your ISP's web page and poke around and see if that is just as slow or faster than other sites. That might tell you whether the problem is with your local connection or with the ISP's connection to the Internet.

Finally, if you are having connection problems, don't hesitate to call your ISP. They may have performance data (if it's DSL or cable) that indicates the health of your line. There are many things that can go wrong with a DSL or cable line to slow it down. Only your ISP can diagnose these things. Something similar applies to dialup lines except that they will not fix the line unless there is audible noise on the line. Place a call and check for that.

Answer 2

could be on your isp's side and not you at all. try clicking start>run and in the open field type this: cmd and click ok. next at the command prompt type in ping www.yahoo.com and hit enter, this will send out a packets and from there you can get an idea of the ms time. the higher it is the crapper the connection. also you could do the same but this time type in tracert http://www.yahoo.com or whatever url you want and you can see the hop rate and where it's getting stuck at or timing out at...usually the 3rd or 4th hop is out of your network and somewhere else, this way you can see if it's on your end or their end.

Answer 3

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if your compuetr's ram is lower that 512 try to increse your ram

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Your hard drive is slow. get a new hard drive

Answer 6

what e net do u have

Answer 7

try something other than dial-up....duh.......

Answer 8

do you have dial-up?

Answer 9

because your internet is slow, just Explain, DUH.