Are you on Cablevision? If you start becoming a high end user during peak usage, they will throttle bandwidth until network traffic goes down.
Other things to look for are: 1. Is bittorrent still open? If so and you have files sharing, the upload traffic will cause speeds to drop. 2. What other activities are going on? Watching movies? Is your wireless network "secure" (no neighbors connected)? If you connect you pc direct to the modem (if it is not already) and it is still slow with no activities (see speedtest.net), call your isp. On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:32 -0500, Greg M. Johnson wrote: > Earlier this week I got 3 distros off the internet. All at once I > asked for 2 by Bittorrent and one by direct download from a link at > Distrowatch. Interestingly, one of the torrents happened faster than > the d.d. > > Anyway, ever since that morning, my home internet service has been > painfully slow. I've read about. ISP's throttling high traffic users > or trying to mess up torrents. Any likelihood of that happening here? > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Dec 2 - MythTV > Jan 6 - Git
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