[Adam Lincoln]

Now, i have been out of the IT game for a while now, so bit rusty! But, my web browsing has been really slow as of late. Downloading from torrent sites is fine. Web browsing has slowed down, and streaming videos is slow. Speed tests show me connected in the region of 8 meg.

Now, i've tried everything to fix this.

Broadband hasn't been capped.
I've changed to static DNS settings.
I've connected directly into phone line, so no faulty cables.
I've connected hard into router, as i am normally on wireless.
Rang up ISP they say everything looks fine.

Only things i haven't tried is changing the router.

Anyone got any other thoughts before i do this.....

It's really effecting me watching streaming pr0n! 

[slackline]

Who is your ISP?

What time of day is browsing slow?

Are you constantly seeding/downloading torrents?

Many ISPs (Virgin in particular) use traffic shaping, whereby at times of day when traffic is "heavy" if your downloading lots they'll restrict your bandwidth.


Its unlikely to be anything to do with your router as it will likely be 54Mbps on wireless and 100Mbps on cabled connections, so the bottle neck will be the ISP.

Try turning your torrent client off and seeing if things improve after an hour or so (or even a day or two).

[Adam Lincoln]

Who is your ISP?
What time of day is browsing slow?
Are you constantly seeding/downloading torrents?
Many ISPs (Virgin in particular) use traffic shaping, whereby at times of day when traffic is "heavy" if your downloading lots they'll restrict your bandwidth.
Its unlikely to be anything to do with your router as it will likely be 54Mbps on wireless and 100Mbps on cabled connections, so the bottle neck will be the ISP.
Try turning your torrent client off and seeing if things improve after an hour or so (or even a day or two).

ISP is Talk Talk
Browsing slow all the time.
I very rarely download, and dont seed for very long (yes i am a leech) So its not that.

All i was thinking was faulty router....

[Bubba]

Clear cache?

Do you have an over-enthusiastic anti-virus. Avast turned my browsing really really slow.

[Adam Lincoln]

Clear cache?

Do you have an over-enthusiastic anti-virus. Avast turned my browsing really really slow.

Yeah cleared the cache.. No overenthusiastic AV either!

[Jim]

perhaps some malware/adware etc....

[Adam Lincoln]

perhaps some malware/adware etc....

...

[Jim]

?

try a couple of different anti malware/adware programs if your only running one, none of them pick up everything 100%.
There are plenty of good free ones out there

[Bubba]

I caught some very nasty malware from a keygen recently. The only thing that removed it was Threatfire. Recommended.

I've learned my lesson now. All keygens get run in a VMware virtual machine running XP

[Adam Lincoln]

I am running a Mac, so a free spyware/malware removal bit of software is non existant... Ill have to pay for one i guess!

[Adam Lincoln]

Right, a quick seach around it seems the problems could be with talk talk. Appauling all round is the general view. Right, so i am going to move. As you know talk talk do the whole phone and telephone package which i have. So, on speaking to Tiscali, who i want to move to, they say i have to reinstate my BT phone line back to what it was. Which means taking up a BT phone at no end of cost and contract.

Anyone had similar problems to this and know a way round it? ARGGHHHH!

[dontfollowme]

I know if you move to sky they pay the cost of moving the line away from talk talk.

[Adam Lincoln]

Its unlikely to be anything to do with your router

Well it was.....

[slackline]

Its unlikely to be anything to do with your router

Well it was.....

Bummer, seems to be a lot of router problems these days.