internet slowed down

[Cyproz]

Ok so i have comcast internet. I pay 40-50 a month. I used to have cable and internet and that was 140 a month. The price for internet didnt change when i cut my cable off. I used to do a speed test and get 12 mb/s, my downloads would be as much a 2 MB/s. Now i do a speed test and its like 2 M/bs. I am only actually downloading everything at 170 kb/s max. Utorrent, steam, mozilla any download. Nothing has changed, same router, same modem. Im plugged directly into the router. My router is very secure so no nieghbors leach.

Im wondering whats going on.

 

[Cyproz]

as you can see this is last month


and this is 5 months before that

 

[StonedPony]

With the cold spell i figure the cable wire is frozen needss to be thawed out............MY lights were gettting real dim and had to go outside with a torch to heat up the eletric cable from the meter to the house.

 

[StonedPony]

this what i just got.

 

[Cyproz]

o i guess that makes sense. but im in jacksonville, FL. it doesnt get that cold, plus a month ago it was 10 times colder then this last week.

 

[StonedPony]

my bad rj45 connecter?

 

[Cyproz]

whats that, the splitter?

 

[StonedPony]

yea sometimes they get corosion they are copper wires just a thought had it happen before used a pencil eraser to clean

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

I want to know why RIU just slowed down.

 

[StonedPony]

you cant call comcast and have em test your connection?

 

[StonedPony]

I want to know why RIU just slowed down.

ppl posting wise or speedwise

 

[Johnnyorganic]

Are you in Canada?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...tm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Do you run an unsecured wifi hotspot?
If so, someone could be borrowing your bandwidth. Encrypt your signal.

If secure, is it WEP encrypted?
WEP is the weakest encryption. Try WPA, or WPA2.

EDIT: I see you are in Jacksonville. I should have checked for updates before submitting the post.

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

ppl posting wise or speedwise

SPEED! It's taking like 20 seconds to load a page when it should be less then a second!

 

[Johnnyorganic]

whats that, the splitter?

RJ-45 is the plug at either end of the cable.

But if you are getting any connectivity at all, neither the RJ-45 nor the cabling on your end is the problem.

 

[420God]

With the cold spell i figure the cable wire is frozen needss to be thawed out............MY lights were gettting real dim and had to go outside with a torch to heat up the eletric cable from the meter to the house.

Roflmao!!! I wish I could rep you for this but I have to spread some around.

 

[Cyproz]

yea i have no issue getting connected its just so slow. Im using a WEP cause thats the only one i know how.

i have the option of WPA pre shared key or WPA radius

 

[StonedPony]

oh yes....duh he was getting a connection just real slow.....my bad.....nothing to do with connectors......when I had the problem it was no connection at all when I cleaned the connecter everything was fine..............sorry for the bad info....missread

 

[Cyproz]

all info is good info, well mostly. Now i know if i lose connection to check that cable.

 

[Johnnyorganic]

yea i have no issue getting connected its just so slow. Im using a WEP cause thats the only one i know how.

i have the option of WPA pre shared key or WPA radius

Switch over if you can. WPA is much more secure. WEP is so weak, it is almost like having no encryption at all. A serious gamer or someone downloading a shitload of data could easily crack it.

 

[Cyproz]

ok switched to WPA pre shared key. nothing has changed.

also yes i will be calling comcast tommorow, i wanted to see if the problem was on my end.