How To Speed Up Computer's Internet

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At my house, there are four computers total. I own one of the four. This one I own is 1.5 years old.

Lately, I have noticed that my internet is going slower and slower, even to the point where if I want to view a page, I have to:

1. Click stop.
2. Click Back.
3. View page.

and repeat it a few times, till I FULLY see the page I want. I never had to do this before, but it is absolutely critical that I speed up my internet on this computer. It is annoying me that I have to spend atleast 10-20 seconds clicking stop, back, until I view the page fully. The other computers at my house are running faster than this one -- even the old one which is 4+ years old.

This has been going on for about a week now. It was fine before that.

I ran it through ad aware and spybot, and things appear fine. Two days ago, I removed about 191 infections w/ adaware. I just defragmented it today...

My question: How do I speed up my internet? What are some guesses as to why this is slowing down?
 
Other users on your home network could eat up all bandwidth by running any P2P apps like bittorrent or Limewire, or something similar. I would perhaps run a sniffer to evaluate the packets on your network and then see what is eating them up.

Other option is to increase your broadband service.
 
tlarkin said:
Other users on your home network could eat up all bandwidth by running any P2P apps like bittorrent or Limewire, or something similar. I would perhaps run a sniffer to evaluate the packets on your network and then see what is eating them up.

Other option is to increase your broadband service.
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The other computers at my house (not mine -- they're my family's), don't use limewire or a bittorrent. However, this one uses limewire and P2P things.

1. What's a bandwidth?
2. What should I do?
3. Sniffer?
 
Bandwidth is the total amount of data throughput on your network. So, if you have a 10megabit internet connection, it is shared to all your clients on your network. So, if you have one client downloading at lest say 900k/second via bittorrent or what not, it could be totally eating up all the bandwidth for everything else.

A sniffer will evaluate packets of information sent and received on your network, and if there was an application say, LimeWire that was sending/receiving an insane amount of packets you should probably kill it. Wireshark is a port from the ethereal. You can run it to evaluate network traffic.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=255&package_id=193847

download the windows version if you run windows
 
paratwa said:
What kind of connection do you have? Cable, DSL, Dialup?
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I'm not sure what connection I have, seeing as how my dad is the one who handles these things.

But I do know that we use shaw high speed internet, use a router, and this computer that I'm using (aforementioned one), uses the wireless cable (? - is that what it's called?)

... I think it's most likely DSL or Cable.
 
tlarkin said:
Bandwidth is the total amount of data throughput on your network. So, if you have a 10megabit internet connection, it is shared to all your clients on your network. So, if you have one client downloading at lest say 900k/second via bittorrent or what not, it could be totally eating up all the bandwidth for everything else.

A sniffer will evaluate packets of information sent and received on your network, and if there was an application say, LimeWire that was sending/receiving an insane amount of packets you should probably kill it. Wireshark is a port from the ethereal. You can run it to evaluate network traffic.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=255&package_id=193847

download the windows version if you run windows
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Thanks for explaining.

Can I remove everythign I downloaded off this once I download this? I would like to conserve some space.
 
the program is not very big, and the logs are simply text. Maybe a total of like 15 megabytes in space will be used.

If you need that space you can delete it. If you are using P2P apps I suspect possibly some adware/malware may be involved.
 
tlarkin said:
the program is not very big, and the logs are simply text. Maybe a total of like 15 megabytes in space will be used.

If you need that space you can delete it. If you are using P2P apps I suspect possibly some adware/malware may be involved.
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Just a few quick questions...

1. What do I click to download it? < This is killing me. Internet is so slow, it took me like 30+ seconds of clicking back, stop, back, stop, just to type up this message. Same goes for the program you're talking about to me.
2. If malware/adware ARE in fact involved, what should I do to combat them? So far, I have spybot, adaware, and AVG. AVG is currently scannign for viruses. I used spybot and adaware earlier yesterday. In addition, I used adaware the day before yesterday, too (that's twice this week). I removed 191 infections on that day. Also, if I am able to remove the malware/adware, will my internet go back to it's normal speed?
4. By kill it, specifically, what do you mean?
 
If your system it hooked up on a wireless connection, there could be a bunch of different reasons why your connection is slow. If you are to far from the wireless router, to many walls between you and the router or if your in the basement and the router is on the 3rd floor. All of those could be reasons.
 
paratwa said:
If your system it hooked up on a wireless connection, there could be a bunch of different reasons why your connection is slow. If you are to far from the wireless router, to many walls between you and the router or if your in the basement and the router is on the 3rd floor. All of those could be reasons.
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It is one wall away from the router. But walking distance, it's baout 15-25 feet. Router and this computer are on the same floor...
 
Start - Run - Gpedit.msc - Computer config - Admin Templates - Network - QOS Packet Scheduler - Limit Reservable Bandwidth - Enable - 0%
 
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