So I go over my friends house and before I leave, I'm downloading a few things and playing Poker and Starcraft online. He shows me Left 4 Dead at his house so I decide to buy it off of STEAM which will allows me to download it from their client and the game is about 4-8 gigs. I download it on my laptop at his house at 1.1mbps and than I get home and I try to download it on my comp and I'm downloading at 120kbps max. My internet is now extremely laggy and I can't play any games online while I download this game at such a slow rate. I check if it's my router so I remove it, it's not. I'm wired and have 2 wireless comps connected on a secure LAN. I try downloading random files on other computers and the max speed I'm getting is 120kbps. Normally, I can atleast get to 700kbps on this new DSL.
I do realize that DSL gets slower as more people use it but I've had this DSL for a month and it has been solid but the past 2 days it's been this slow. I can't call Verizon because it's the weekend and they're useless. I miss my Comcast cable but the prices were insane. Is this something awkward or something that happens to DSL where long periods of time, it can be laggy for days?
oh ya, I speed tested my connection currently on many different sites and I am getting 1000kbps download speed and 200-300 upload yet thats not really what I'm getting when I download.
also I have Westell 6100F Verizon DSL Modem and an old reliable buffalo modem in use and a NEW linksys wrt54g2 which sucks sitting out. i switched the routers, i connected the computer directly to the modem, none of those improved.
I do realize that DSL gets slower as more people use it but I've had this DSL for a month and it has been solid but the past 2 days it's been this slow. I can't call Verizon because it's the weekend and they're useless. I miss my Comcast cable but the prices were insane. Is this something awkward or something that happens to DSL where long periods of time, it can be laggy for days?
oh ya, I speed tested my connection currently on many different sites and I am getting 1000kbps download speed and 200-300 upload yet thats not really what I'm getting when I download.
also I have Westell 6100F Verizon DSL Modem and an old reliable buffalo modem in use and a NEW linksys wrt54g2 which sucks sitting out. i switched the routers, i connected the computer directly to the modem, none of those improved.