Internet is slower all of a sudden..

[Special Chris]

Well, I've noticed in the past week my youtube videos stop to buffer every now and then which use to not happen..ever.

So I tried downloading something it downloads at 110KB/s where it use to download at 170-180KB/s..What could be causing this?

This goes is this part of the forum, right? xD

[Mark]

This goes is this part of the forum, right? xD

Yep, you got the right place.

Let's check if your ISP is piping you the right speed first. http://speedtest.net/

[Special Chris]

I knew I should have posted the one I did earlier.

[Mark]

What speed should you be receiving from them?

Also, are you on a wired / wireless LAN connection?

[Special Chris]

I'm not really sure how to answer that. For the past..Hell, 6-7 years I've been having the same download speed as 180KB/s(1.4Mbs)..And the desktop I'm using is using an Ethernet cord, but download speeds have fallen on the laptops as well.

[Mark]

You're getting a download of 0.89Mb/s. Do you know what speed you're paying for and what speed you were previously receiving?

[Special Chris]

Not really. See, I'm completely retarded when it comes to anything internet related. If this helps, whenever I plug my ethernet cord into my desktop is says something about connecting to 100Mbps, if that means anything.

EDIT: This is what it actually says

Local Area Connection
Speed: 100Mbps
Connecting..

Not to sure about the connecting part, but its something like that.

[Mark]

A standard LAN connection, (Ethernet) is 100Mb/s. That's normal. It relates to internal, LAN speeds eg. you won't get 100Mbp/s from the internet but you're likely to achieve that locally, like i can transfer files locally to my file server at around 80Mbp/s. Wireless is a lot slower with Wireless G being a max of 54Mbp/s which you'll never achieve.

How many people are on your network?
Have you tried it with just you on the network, on your ethernet PC?

I assume you've also power cycled your router? Turned router and modem off for 2minutes, then turned the modem on, then the router, then the PC. Still the same problem?

[Special Chris]

They're are four computers on my network. 1 desktop, and 3 laptops.
And by just me, do you mean having all the other laptops turned off, or do I have to disconnect them to?
And I've turned the router and modem off, then back on, but I didn't turn my PC off.

[Mark]

By you, just one machine - preferably the wired machine. Turn all of the other machines off, (3 laptops), just shut them down.

General steps,

• Turn all machines off, (including your desktop)
  
• Turn the router off
  
• Turn the modem off
  
• Wait 2-5 minutes
  
• Turn the modem on (wait for it to do it's stuff and give the green lights)
  
• Turn the router on (again, wait for it to do it's stuff and give the green lights)
  
• Turn just your desktop on.
  

edit: also, if you have an xbox or a console turn them off - they're networked devices. (Or just don't have them on the network for this test)