I've been using Bell Canada high speed internet for about 2 years now. Until recently I've noticed when downloading that there's been a major slowdown (about 1/2 of original speed) to my internet. Not only is it downloading, but YouTube is also being slowed to almost a halt.
I have theoritacally 512KB internet, but of course it slows down to 1/10 of that, 51.2KB/s. That's fine, but now it's slowed down to 24.8kb/s.
The activity light on the modem is only flashing half the time now, so I know the internet isn't at its full potential. Like for example, when I used to download something, it would flash continuously until the job is done. Now it just flashes for 5 secs, then stops for 4, starts again, stops again.
This is reallly annoying, does anyone know the reason for this and how to fix it?
This has been like this for about 2 weeks now, so its not anything temporary.
This is a DESKTOP computer, and I have DSL service.
I don't think it's the ISP's problem, I have a feeling its got something to do with a virus.
I have theoritacally 512KB internet, but of course it slows down to 1/10 of that, 51.2KB/s. That's fine, but now it's slowed down to 24.8kb/s.
The activity light on the modem is only flashing half the time now, so I know the internet isn't at its full potential. Like for example, when I used to download something, it would flash continuously until the job is done. Now it just flashes for 5 secs, then stops for 4, starts again, stops again.
This is reallly annoying, does anyone know the reason for this and how to fix it?
This has been like this for about 2 weeks now, so its not anything temporary.
This is a DESKTOP computer, and I have DSL service.
I don't think it's the ISP's problem, I have a feeling its got something to do with a virus.