need help please

[osiris999]

ok for the past week my internet has been getting really slow. i have road runner cable internet. its always been really fast till now. right now its slower than dial up. i went and opened all ports and disabled any kind of firewall on the router. didnt help at all. is there any kind of program i can use to maybe find my problem. i really dont want to call the cable company and have them come out because i will have to take down my router and cables. then explain to the guy why we only have one pc hooked up to internet.(they hate people who are smart enough to buy their own router and want you to belive that it will only work with theirs that cost 300$ and an extra 40$ a month) i had a torrent going eariler today and it was going just fine so i dont see why websites are loading soo slow. i was useing firefox and today i got opera to try it out. opera was about dialup speed for a few hours and now its way slower than dial up.

[Beginner]

does things get better when you reboot your pc?

have you checked for spyware ... etc.

whats running in the background?

[CyberFed]

Make sure you arent downloading a torrent and trying to surf the web...because if you are uploading torrent data that will usually bring your net connection to a crawl. Next off CLOSE YOUR PORTS! Thats a huge security risk, opening ports has nothing to do with faster net connection. Do a spyware scan and do an ipconfig /release /renew and /flushdns. Also don't worry about the tech coming out and seeing you have multiple computers hooked up to one connection, the techs dont care they dont get paid enough to care.

clear out your cookies/cache and temp files

also check out www.speedguide.net for some speed tweaks

and go to www.toast.net and do a speed test to see what you are running

worst case call your ISP and have em come out and do a line test.

good luck

[osiris999]

spyware and virus scan all show nothing. virus scan does show like 40 warnings. restarting doesnt help. processes under task manager shows 33 running. cpu usage is at 1% memory is at 434mb. if i run a torrent it downloads at about 60kb but when i shut it down web pages take almost 5 min to load. besides that the pc runs normal. intenet is slow like this on both pcs.

[osiris999]

Your Results: 656 Kb
Bellsouth: 872 Kb
Avg. Results: 1129 Kb
Charter: 1384 Kb
Adelphia: 1543 Kb
Comcast: 2323 Kb


is my score from toast

[osiris999]

ok i downloaded the tcp otpimizer and thats helping. im faster than dialup now but im not close to how i was.

[fUzZ bUnNy]

your firewall shouldn't be the issue. it probably responds with times of less than 1ms.

are you running any kind of p2p file sharing program? those use up bandwidth because they open a string of ports with the router, so if your router does not have any type of quality of service, then it can't prioritize web traffic, etc.

a great way to see what programs are open on your computer is to go into command prompt and type:

netstat -a -n

that should let you see all the ports open from your computer to the internet

i wouldn't trust any thing called "tcp optimizer" because packet construction is written incrediably efficient. unless it is running a qos, it might also be spyware

[osiris999]

ok i did the command prompt and i have a hug ammount of things that came up but i have no idea what programs they are for or anything. i have no p2p programs open. the only programs that deal with internet are opera and antivir.

[osiris999]

its gotten even slower. when i had dialup on a sega dreamcast it was faster than this by alot.

[osiris999]

ok i just now turned off my main rig (the one ive been on the whole time) now im on the other one and the internet is going much faster. so im thinking its something with my pc. so whats some things i can do to find this problem. i went back on toast and did all the speed test. i came in first in every test but 1.(the shuttle) but every other test i won by a long shot. shuttle i barley got 2nd. the results in my other post were on my main rig.

my upload is 418 kbps also

[osiris999]

ok update i took out my main router. (i have vontage phone so i have 2 routers) took me forever but i got the vontage router to actully work as the only router on the network. now both pcs and phone are extreamly fast. i dont know what happened to the other router but it went down the drain. im glad i only paid 20$ new. i guess from now on i wont buy cheap routers.