Slow speeds

[demooseus]

when you say internet wont work at all,are there certain sites that you cant access or you just cant get online at all??
i ask this as i know there are M.T.U issues with some routers/I.S.P's

 

[invisiblewall]

There were sometimes when the internet didn't work at all. That happened a couple of times during the first few months after the router was installed but it stopped now.

 

[demooseus]

if your router has built in firewall,make sure you have disabled your 'built in' firewalls.xp,sp2(if installed)-[by the way if its installed,did the probs start after or before??].also disable things like zone alarm,make sure if you have norton av that its not running in 'auto protect'.
i always check the obvious things first-and i'm sure you have done this already.
also,did you follow KILLIAN's advice and try disconnecting from the router and connect direct??

 

[!AAATechOne]

I suspect there could be software issues at play here, besides the obvious potential cable/router issues. Have you installed any new software packages lately? Did you perhaps get bogged down by a spyware package, and are not aware of it? Peer-to-peer file sharing programs frequently load up a lot of unwanted software packages that can bog down the speed of your Internet connection horribly.

 

[invisiblewall]

if your router has built in firewall,make sure you have disabled your 'built in' firewalls.xp,sp2(if installed)-[by the way if its installed,did the probs start after or before??].also disable things like zone alarm,make sure if you have norton av that its not running in 'auto protect'.
i always check the obvious things first-and i'm sure you have done this already.
also,did you follow KILLIAN's advice and try disconnecting from the router and connect direct??

Yeah, I disabled that stuff. I haven't tried disconnecting the router and connecting direct as I'm pretty sure that's the reason for these problems and my sister would ***** at me if I removed it. I just posted this topic to see if there was some way around it...

I suspect there could be software issues at play here, besides the obvious potential cable/router issues. Have you installed any new software packages lately? Did you perhaps get bogged down by a spyware package, and are not aware of it? Peer-to-peer file sharing programs frequently load up a lot of unwanted software packages that can bog down the speed of your Internet connection horribly.

I didn't but if I did, it probaly would of been removed in the near daily adaware scans I do.