vicious Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 for some reason my internet has gotten very slowi'm talking about going from broadband speed to dial up speed it started on sunday, the only thing i installed for weeks is windows live messenger but i quickly deleted iti cleared all my history, cookies etc.i rang my broadband provider but they didn't help one bit i am using IE and i thought that firefox might help, but to download 4mbs it had an ETA of an hour! anyone know what could help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santana Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Run a virus and spyware scan. Infected files may be the cause of your problem.Also, try powercycling your modem. Disconnect the power from your broadband moden, wait 10 seconds, and then reconnect the power. Wait a minute or two for the modem to restart, then see if your speed has increased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicious Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 didn't work thanks anyway for trying i think i'll be switching broadband providers very soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDRM Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 If you're with NTL the same has been happening with me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicious Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 well it was back to normal for a few minutes but then someone insisted on a webcam conversation and msn blew up and broadband went slow againi think its an msn issue so i'm re installing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp What speed do you get on there?R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicious Posted October 11, 2006 Author Share Posted October 11, 2006 http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp What speed do you get on there?R.no need to try because its back to normal now i just reinstalled msn and then rebooted my router and it went back to normalthanks for all the help though i owe yee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highvoltage Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Sitting on a shitty phone line at my grandparents here... it's like using 28.8kbps all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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