Internet speed help!! thanks...10 points to best helper?

Question

so latley the speed for the internet has been much slower than it ever was before. the internet connection says my speed is 54.0 which ithink is good and the connection says Excellent. I am on a laptop with wireless internet that is in my house- on a different level , but the connection always says very good or excellent. However the speed has been so much slower loading the webpages or going from one website to the next. I deleted cookies, scanned for spyware- everything came out clean. I have plenty of space on my hard drive, and nothing illegal is downloaded or anything running on the comp that would make it slower. The computer itself is very fast, however the actual internet web pages are very slow. Can anyone help me make it very fast again? without having to buy anything? anyone know how to help me? thanks i rly appreciate it
-cutsey ;)

Answer 1

Good day. I may not answer yur question but check this. If u at a different level and no routers around the house, it is very hard for wireless to pass thru walls. Then again how thick is the wall and how far away from the source or wireless may give you problems. Also yur connection may be good but things may be slow. Analogy is that all the water pipes around yur house may be well connected, no leakages etc but yur water supply may be poor.

Make sure yur wireless connection is firewalled cause if someone is hacking, they may be using yur connection and squeezing u out so check yur internet and router properties. Laterz.

Answer 2

The only thing I can think after all that you have already done, would a firewall. Do you have firewalls running? Disable the firewall. Mainly disable the windows firewall. Some people have this, some don't.

Here is another way to speed up connection

Click START
click RUN
type: CMD (then hit ok)

Black DOS screen appears. Type this exactly:


ipconfig /flushdns

This is like deleting cookies, only it deletes a history of ip addresses that may be stored up. Also Who's service do you have? Broadband, DSL, or dialup?

Answer 3

possibly it has something to do with the distance between your dsl device and the laptop. your pc may be too far from the device. you should not be more than 50 ft away from it but not as near as 2 feet.

another possible cause can be an electromagnetic interference from any other devices you have at home like your appliances. they can interrupt wireless signals. make sure that your dsl device isn't too near with any of those.

if the distance is okey, try to increase the wireless channel in the dsl device. if you don't have any idea on how to reset the wireless channel you can call you device manufacturer or your internet provider.

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Tell me your processor speed and system RAM memory. The hard drive memory doesn't affect how well the computer will run but the system memory will. You should have like 512 MB minumim at no less then 2.0 ghz. Also if you have a laptop then they do tend to where down. Also if you just got IE7 then that might also be the problem..

Answer 5

An internet connection can become slow or stop working due to a number of reasons depending on the type of the connection. Many of the problems can be solved by making software changes or small hardware corrections. Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yl62gz

Answer 6

When you start your computer all the things have to load and they run in the back ground, Go to start and look for your run type in msconfig and hit OK then a window will come up and so yo to start up,UN check anything that loads at start up that you have installed,Such as yahoo mess,msn, stuff like that but leave anything that says system checked UN check the rest hit apply OK and restart and see if that helps Good Luck

Answer 7

Make sure no one else is on your network. People can use your network and suck up the internet speed. You can check by going to your network setup, if you use linksys, type in http://192.168.1.1/ name and password is defaulted at admin. Also, if the internet web pages seem slow, lose the internet explorer. I use Mozilla Firefox and I can tell a HUGE difference in loading times of websites.

Answer 8

that happens to me sometimes because the router is on the first floor of my house and my room is on the second floor. your best bet is to move "closer" to the router location. another tip is that it could be that someone's stealing your wireless internet. you should check outside if there any weird cars parked outside for long periods of time. also, you should install a password on your wireless internet network so no one can connect without knowing the password. you can do this by reading the router manual. it's either a WEP or WPA.

Answer 9

do you have too much junks in your recycle bin thats not deleted yet?too much icons on desktop?too much programmes running at the same time?(ect msn messager quicktime warcraft the sims)
someone sharing your network with you?something wrong with the router?spyware?virus?not enough signal from the mother modem?
try www.download.com use mozilla firefox its much faster than the common mircosoft internet explorer i think someone's tapping into your wireless network for free internet use.ive had the problem before got my cousin to solve it though.

Answer 10

well there are 2 things you could do. try a new browser www.mozilla.org is a great one clled firefox. While i dont know how to do this on a windows machine see if someone is on your wireless system without your permission. that will slow you down as well.