Hey,

My internet normally gets numbers like...

60 Download
17 Upload

But recently my upload has been getting like half these numbers or sometimes it has been going down to like 3. I play a lot of online games as well as poker and this is pretty frustrating when it decides to happen.

Is there anything I can do to try and fix the matter myself?

Thanks in advanced.

It depends on what is causing the problem as to whether you can do anything about it.... the problem could be your computer, the wifi connection, the router, the ISP or the internet in general.

You say this has started 'recently'. Can you define recently? also, where are you based? London had a massive routing problem at the end of last week (starting Thursday, I believe) - one of the central carriers was having routing problems that caused all sorts of bandwidth issues for any traffic lucky enough to go through their data centre.

Things you can try....

- Do you have the problem using wifi? Have you tried the same on wired?
- How are you measuring your bandwidth? Have you tried disabling AV whilst running the tests?
- Have you tried using your computer on anothers wifi? Do you get speed problems?
- Have you tried using someone elses computer on your wifi? Same problem?
- Have you spoken to your ISP about this??
- Have you tried a different router / modem?

This isn't on BT by any chance? The numbers and story are identical to what happened to me about 10 days ago.

I called them and worked through the line reset tests; the line profile improved over a few days (but at the same time I upgraded to a dual band router) so I'm now back to 60/20 on 5GHz but only 20/10 on 2.4Ghz. Possible culprit on the lower bandwidth is a baby monitor, it seems, plus the general confusion of 2.4Ghz band signals in this shared building.