Slow internet!

[lyecdevf]

I have a 12MB internet connection but lately it is acting very slow. Well, I mean some times it is hard to surf the net because certain webpages take too long to open or I have to give it several tries. Other than that I can download pretty fast. Why would I have such a problem opening webpages and should I contact my ISP to tell them about my problem?

 

[Hefemeister]

Test your speed to see if you are getting what you are supposed to.

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[Harper]

do you have a download quota on your internet account?

 

[lyecdevf]

No I do not have a download quota. Fact is that there are a lot of people using this internet connection because we share it over a router so I was wondering that it might be slow because of that!

 

[Imburr]

That will certainly affect your speed. The more people using the internet for web browsing and/or downloading will lower the speed at which your pages load. Even being the only one using my connection if I am downloading a lot of material my web browser can become almost non-reactive. Your best bet might be to wait untill not peak time to browse the web, if that is possible. I am sure you would have a much faster connection if everyone else was asleep.

 

[Harper]

No I do not have a download quota. Fact is that there are a lot of people using this internet connection because we share it over a router so I was wondering that it might be slow because of that!

Oh yes. All it takes is one of those people to be P2Ping away, and that will slow down your connection.

2 solutions.

1. Buy a managed router or managed so you can limit speeds of the other person his bandwidth whoring on the P2P network. Dlink used to have a Gaming Router that had that feature. However I am not sure if it's still avalable on the market.
2. Find who the bandwidth bandit is tell him to slow down a little when you are using the internet too. (or give him a solid kick up the arse)