When I first subscribed to my local ISP's High(est) Speed Internet connection everything 
was fine.  About a year ago my downloads all-of-a-sudden slowed to an absolute crawl 
- down as low as 10Kb/s.  And since then they have generally stayed below 56K dialup 
speed.
I have had my ISP check and recheck my connection but it shows as being okay, with 
my downloads hovering around 400k.  I've tried my connection direct from the DSL 
modem (eliminating the router), but no change.  And I've had the same problem on 
three different computers - two desktops and a laptop.
I even went out and bought a new Linksys router the other day and installed it a 
couple of days ago.  No difference.  Last night I disconnected my desktop from its 
wired connection, changing it to wireless.  Bingo!!!  I had my full speed back again 
- not only on my computer but on my wife's computer which is on our little home network. 
 I was extremely pleased, as you can imagine, after a year of 300-1200-baud download 
speeds.
But my celebration was short-lived as today I am back to my dial-up download speeds.
I have run Internet speed tests from several sources and all of them show proper 
upload/download speeds.  And yet when it's time to download a file or stream some 
online video everything slows to a crawl.
As I'm sure you can imagine, this is driving me nuts and, after a year of this, I 
figure it's time to get to the bottom of my problem.
I'm sure I've tried everything but maybe you can come up with an idea or two that 
I haven't tried.  I'd be most grateful for your help.
Thanks.

David

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Oh, and I should add that I have also updated the DSL modem with no change in my 
upload/downloads speeds.

David





On Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:28 pm, David Hankinson wrote:

>When I first subscribed to my local ISP's High(est) Speed Internet connection everything 

>was fine.  About a year ago my downloads all-of-a-sudden slowed to an absolute crawl 

>- down as low as 10Kb/s.  And since then they have generally stayed below 56K dialup 

>speed.

>I have had my ISP check and recheck my connection but it shows as being okay, with 

>my downloads hovering around 400k.  I've tried my connection direct from the DSL 

>modem (eliminating the router), but no change.  And I've had the same problem on 

>three different computers - two desktops and a laptop.

>I even went out and bought a new Linksys router the other day and installed it a 

>couple of days ago.  No difference.  Last night I disconnected my desktop from its 

>wired connection, changing it to wireless.  Bingo!!!  I had my full speed back again 

>- not only on my computer but on my wife's computer which is on our little home 
network. 

> I was extremely pleased, as you can imagine, after a year of 300-1200-baud download 

>speeds.

>But my celebration was short-lived as today I am back to my dial-up download speeds.

>I have run Internet speed tests from several sources and all of them show proper 

>upload/download speeds.  And yet when it's time to download a file or stream some 

>online video everything slows to a crawl.

>As I'm sure you can imagine, this is driving me nuts and, after a year of this, 
I 

>figure it's time to get to the bottom of my problem.

>I'm sure I've tried everything but maybe you can come up with an idea or two that 

>I haven't tried.  I'd be most grateful for your help.

>Thanks.

>

>David 

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You say you had your ISP check the thing......

Did they send  a tech out to check the line?  And if so, did they check the line 
right there where it plugs into your modem or did they check it where the phone line 
goes into the "NID" (network interface device), the box on the back of your house 
that your house phone wiring plugs into.

If they did not check the connection from within your home, get a good quality (not 
dollar store) phone extension line, run it from the NID to the modem, and recheck. 
 Could be the DSL signal is being affected by bad wiring in your home.  Using the 
extension line will bypass inside wiring.  If the thing consistently runs right with 
this extension rig, then your house wiring is bad.

Another thing to check---are your DSL hi-pass filters installed on ALL phone jacks 
EXCEPT the jack that feeds the modem?  Your modem MUST have an unfiltered direct 
connection to the line carrying the DSL signal.  Get rid of splitters, answering 
machines, fax machines, or other contraptions and test again.  Also, I have seen 
it where DSL speeds have been hampered even though a jack has nothing plugged into 
it and for some reason when a filter is plugged in, even though nothing is plugged 
into the filter, it makes the speed better.  Weird.

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DSL is vulnerable to the same problems as dial-up with respect to congestion. If all of your machines are suddenly slow, I would be thinking that you had originally a new or less congested line and your provider just added a bunch of people to your line recently. Try to see if this issue changes consistently at different times of the day or night. Also I don't promote other peoples software very often, but you might check into "Auslogics" Boost speed. It has an INTERNET optimizer and in that it will do an actual connection/upload/download test that you can record the speeds. And of course lots of other goodies.

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