Slow internet connection?

Question

I'm connected to my school's internet, because I'm away from home and in college. I'm not sure if it's cable or DSL. It is slow. I try to check my speed, and the upload test just won't work. I've talked to a few people and most just tell me that it's my computer, since no one else is having the same problem. I don't understand how it could be my computer, because it runs at lightning speed when I'm connected to my wireless at home. I don't know much about my internet, but I know the speed is 100.0 Mbps. I scan for spyware every other day, and I also scan for viruses once a week. I do only have 704mb of memory. But is that really making my internet so slow? It won't even load www.msn.com.

Answer 1

You school's network may be saturated, too many people sharing too little bandwidth.

Answer 2

One o the main reasons that you may have a slow connect is because you are sharing a connection with a lot of people in the college. If you are in residence (like me) you may even be able to find it "IT Room" where the hub is; it should be locked ;). Also you say the connection speed is 100 Mbps but the provider will mostly likely cap that at about 70-50Mbps.Also not having much memory on your computer will effect the speed since the internet adds cookies to your computer to help make it run faster.

Answer 3

Yes sir, capacity matters because if your computer has a small of memory left it won't feel comfortable every computer need a space to work smooth, I thought that computers do not have problem if they have small amount of space and they I realize that if you add more memory the more faster your computer will be.....

Answer 4

you don't say what software you are running (XP, Vista or other) but you could use more memory, 740 is not much. you scan for spyware but do you also scan for adware? (lavasoft.com free) also do you do system clean-up? start, accessories, system tools, disk clean-up and defrag (if there are six or more red lines after you analyze defrag, ignore the suggestion to not need it) it takes work to keep it running fast