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Well, I've noticed in the past week my youtube videos stop to buffer every now and then which use to not happen..ever.

So I tried downloading something it downloads at 110KB/s where it use to download at 170-180KB/s..What could be causing this?

This goes is this part of the forum, right? xD

Quote:This goes is this part of the forum, right? xD

Yep, you got the right place.

Let's check if your ISP is piping you the right speed first. http://speedtest.net/

I knew I should have posted the one I did earlier.

What speed should you be receiving from them?

Also, are you on a wired / wireless LAN connection?

I'm not really sure how to answer that. For the past..Hell, 6-7 years I've been having the same download speed as 180KB/s(1.4Mbs)..And the desktop I'm using is using an Ethernet cord, but download speeds have fallen on the laptops as well.

You're getting a download of 0.89Mb/s. Do you know what speed you're paying for and what speed you were previously receiving?

Not really. See, I'm completely retarded when it comes to anything internet related. If this helps, whenever I plug my ethernet cord into my desktop is says something about connecting to 100Mbps, if that means anything.

EDIT: This is what it actually says

Local Area Connection
Speed: 100Mbps
Connecting..

Not to sure about the connecting part, but its something like that.

A standard LAN connection, (Ethernet) is 100Mb/s. That's normal. It relates to internal, LAN speeds eg. you won't get 100Mbp/s from the internet but you're likely to achieve that locally, like i can transfer files locally to my file server at around 80Mbp/s. Wireless is a lot slower with Wireless G being a max of 54Mbp/s which you'll never achieve.

How many people are on your network?
Have you tried it with just you on the network, on your ethernet PC?

I assume you've also power cycled your router? Turned router and modem off for 2minutes, then turned the modem on, then the router, then the PC. Still the same problem?

They're are four computers on my network. 1 desktop, and 3 laptops.
And by just me, do you mean having all the other laptops turned off, or do I have to disconnect them to?
And I've turned the router and modem off, then back on, but I didn't turn my PC off.

By you, just one machine - preferably the wired machine. Turn all of the other machines off, (3 laptops), just shut them down.

General steps,

• Turn all machines off, (including your desktop)
  
• Turn the router off
  
• Turn the modem off
  
• Wait 2-5 minutes
  
• Turn the modem on (wait for it to do it's stuff and give the green lights)
  
• Turn the router on (again, wait for it to do it's stuff and give the green lights)
  
• Turn just your desktop on.
  

edit: also, if you have an xbox or a console turn them off - they're networked devices. (Or just don't have them on the network for this test)