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My interent has been really slow lately. My interent has been really slow lately.

03-25-2010 , 12:22 AM
the past week at my UNI my internet in my room has been really choppy and laggy for the past week. I cant watch any you tube/espn highlight vid because it becomes so ****ing choppy. and the 2p2 forums are also laggy for me.

my laptop is a couple years old but it just started happening last week and also everyone elses internet is fine. and Ive scanned the **** out of my comp for viruses and none can be found. Any suggestions on what to do?
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03-25-2010 , 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Jetto
the past week at my UNI my internet in my room has been really choppy and laggy for the past week. I cant watch any you tube/espn highlight vid because it becomes so ****ing choppy. and the 2p2 forums are also laggy for me.

my laptop is a couple years old but it just started happening last week and also everyone elses internet is fine. and Ive scanned the **** out of my comp for viruses and none can be found. Any suggestions on what to do?
Assuming you are running Windows:

Have you run Disk Cleanup on your C: drive? (right click on C drive in Windows Explorer - Properties - Disk Cleanup)

Do you regularly defrag your drive? This isn't directly related to the Internet but is an important part of general PC maintenance that people tend to ignore (start - all programs - accessories - system tools - disk defragmenter)
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03-25-2010 , 01:06 PM
Thanks.

I completely forgot to cleanup and defrag in the past few months. Hopefully it will help.
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03-25-2010 , 01:11 PM
deleting cookies and temp internet files tends to help speed things up as well.
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03-25-2010 , 01:20 PM
If you are running Windows 7, you can schedule regular, automatic defrags via the Disk Defragmenter program itself. I set mine to run once weekly.

If you are using an older version of Windows, you can still set up automatic defrags, though the procedure is a bit hoop-jumpy. Google "widndows (version) automatic defrag" to find instructions on how to schedule defrags for your specific version of Windows.
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03-25-2010 , 02:24 PM
I have Vista and have always used Firefox. its been really pissing me off lately since its so chuggy that even when I type a post half of the words are misspelled. I have tried to clear up temp files and cookies.

I am defragmenting and did cleanup already so Hopefully those will help. I was really concerned about a virus because this just started happening last week.

Also I'll see to it that i update my firefox and windows update even though those things have never effected my sped before
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03-25-2010 , 02:58 PM
I've never found defragging to help my machine much, and Windows 7 does it for you automatically - silliness to schedule defrags in addition to what it already does.

Download the Glary Utilities to clean up your drive. Check SpeedTest.net to see what your net speeds are when you are experiencing slowness. Also check to see that Windows hasn't updated any of your drivers for you with something that doesn't work well. This just happened to me recently with my RealTek network adapter on my Abit motherboard - windows had a new driver for me, and it turned out that it was really buggy. Had to go to the RealTek website to get a new one.
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03-25-2010 , 04:43 PM
I have some optional updates that I could do If I wanted too and one of them is some kind of driver. They cant be important if they weren't required as my comp usually updates automatically.


my DL and Upload speed are the same around 8-10mbs and my ping is around the 100;s.


Slower than a couple months ago. But Its prolly just my computer
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