My internet conection is really slow even though I have broadband & it tells me I have excellent connection ?

Question

my laptop is a Packard Bell EasyNote which I have had for nearly 2 years, recently my McAfee Antivirus ran out and I purchased a new disk from PC World which I installed, however there was a problem with it as it kept asking me every day and sometimes several times per day to re-register it when I was on-line of which I did, everytime and after 8 days of this, it finally asked me to uninstall and then re-install my McAfee anti Virus, since then It has been OK and has not kept asking me to repeat registration, however now my problem is that the internet is really slow and nearly as slow as dial up, it can take up to 3 minutes to load a page, yet when I check my connection speed it usually tells me that I am connected and that the signal strength is either "excellent or very good." I have also just purchased and installed 2 new memory chips thinking that this would help speed things up as I had a message telling me that I needed more memory, but this has not helped at all...please advise

Answer 1

Isn't McAfee one of the memory hogs? I use a free AV called Avast!, it updates almost daily, and does not seem to slow my machine down. Try disabling McAfee to see if it is what is slowing things down. Also, use Ad-Aware or other ad killer to make sure there are none of those slowing you down.

Answer 2

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 3

av;s are always running in background.plus self updating on your desktop icon right click see if there is an option to delete old updates and then lesson the memory for amount saved.i,m presuming it has a delete old fies option.then clear your browser i.e history cookies temp files then defrag.mint not help but it worth trying.plus if you have the parent lock on it will slow it down a lot it goes through info available to view

Answer 4

Delete all cookies and Unwanted Files.
Check for virus
Check for Spyware
Check you firewall setting

More than that do not use your internet in the night because it is harm to your connection.

Answer 5

ur comp could be infected by malware...namely a dialer..if this is a few weeks u had this prob...wait till u see ur phone bill...or if ure using wireless,ur acc balance will be a pain in the butt...my recommendation is A! yup thtats right avast antivirus....

Answer 6

Have you tried runnig all your anti-virus, spyware, ad-aware, clear your cookies, defrag, clean out all your mailboxes and unwanted folders, etc?

Answer 7

clear old files, compress and defragment the remainder in tools

Answer 8

if you go here you will get a true connection speed test and usefull tips. http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks