My housemates and I have a wireless internet connection, it was set up in the house before I moved in so I didn't have any influence into how it was set up. Normally the internet speed is fine but over the last few days has become insanely slow (~30kB/s) or at least insanely slow on my computer. My housemate says she doesn't have any problems and runs antivirus software regularly (my first thought was that someone had a virus that was eating the bandwidth). I have tried resetting the router and turning my wireless adapter on and off and tried windows wireless diagnostic tool which claims no problem. I have run lots of antivirus and malware checks on my computer too.
Do you think there is a chance we have been hacked and someone is using our internet? I had a quick look at the wireless network properties I have access to and under security type it says "No authentication (Open)" and the encryption type is "WEP" so there is a password but I gather WEP is not the best security system anyway.
If it hasn't been hacked, what else can I do to find out why my internet connection is so slow?
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