Registered: Nov 2001
Location: St. Catharines/Hamilton, CANADA
My internet is teh slow!!!1
This sucks. One day, my internet's so fast. Torrents are fast, browsing is fast, soulseek is fast. Today, it's SOO slow. Loading up a thread takes on average 5 whole minutes. Pictures take minutes to load. Torrents are fucking slow. When I try to download the latest version of firefox, it downloads at 2kb/s.
What gives?!?!
Oh. MSN works fine except file transfers are slow.
Karim
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Jul-28-2005 18:22
milos
houseaddict in disguise
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: 43°11'N 79°14'W
omgz someone is stealing your megahurtz!!!11one
Jul-28-2005 18:24
VERTiG0
cunning linguist.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Are you on Rogers? It seems that after downloading each successive season of Top Gear (some 3-4GB each), for the next few days it feels like my connection has been throttled somewhat.
I don't know if this is the case, but if so, they're ******s.
Jul-28-2005 19:19
joinT
haussnob
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: always futurebound....
do you have access to your router??
have a look at how many sessions are open.. if when you are doing nothing online there are tons of connections still occuring, you might have picked up a spamming trojan/virus..
if not, Rogers could be the culprit.. you are sharing bandwidth with your neighbours so if everyone is online and downloading at the same time you will notice slower performance..
Jul-28-2005 19:23
smuncky
Architect
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: richmond hill, ontario, canada
rogers is throttling my dc++... those bastards
cant even d/l a song from there anymore
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Jul-28-2005 19:24
milos
houseaddict in disguise
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: 43°11'N 79°14'W
i'm not sure if you guys are aware, but running torrents is a MAJOR slowdown for your connection. even if its not uploading at your connections max speed, you will still see a HUGE performance decrease in everything else
Jul-28-2005 19:27
karim
the method to the madness
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: St. Catharines/Hamilton, CANADA
I'm on sympatico. Funny enough this all happened after I got a pretty bad power surge after a storm. Could the router be facked?
Karim
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Jul-28-2005 19:31
joinT
haussnob
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: always futurebound....
quote:
Originally posted by karim
I'm on sympatico. Funny enough this all happened after I got a pretty bad power surge after a storm. Could the router be facked?
Karim
reboot the router just to be sure..
also if you use a switch or hub, power off & power back on.
Jul-28-2005 19:32
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by joinT
reboot the router just to be sure..
also if you use a switch or hub, power off & power back on.
that and your Symapatico modem...
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Jul-28-2005 19:33
joinT
haussnob
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: always futurebound....
quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
that and your Symapatico modem...
good call.. knew i was forgetting something.
Jul-28-2005 19:35
Orko
Digital Hippie
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
fuckin sympatico. ive had so many problems with them + routers.
Same it would be fast sometimes, slow ass the next. They obvioulsy refuse to help.
Found a few solutions. If you cant find a fix, PM me, and ill show what you i did to 'solve' my problems.
Jul-28-2005 19:37
karim
the method to the madness
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: St. Catharines/Hamilton, CANADA
I actually did that at least 3 times yesterday.
Karim
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