[catra619]

I have an E- Machine which is a very cheap computer and runs on vista, the computer runs great; however, the internet had certin times where it runs slower than others. The internet always works perfect;y and fast in the mornings and gets slow around noon. Ive ran virus scans, defragmented my computer, deleted unwanted programs. This problem showed up about 2 months ago and i cant find the source of why its doing this. Any suggestions?

[JohnWill]

This sounds like a classic case of an overloaded ISP network, it's a very common complaint.

I'm guessing this has nothing to do with your computer.

Please run the following test when it's working properly, then again when it's slow.


Register at DSLReports and run their Line Quality Tests. It's best to run this test with a direct wired connection to eliminate any wireless issues from the results. It's useful many times to run this test several times, and we'd like to see each of the results. Post the results link from the top of the test display page for each test run here.

The link to post is near the top of the page and looks like:

If you wish to post this result to a forum, please copy/paste this URL
http://www.dslreports.com/linequality/nil/2357195 <- sample only, yours will obviously be different!
and your IP will be disguised.

Copy/paste that link here.

Note: You will have to enable PING (ICMP) request response either in your router (if you have one), or in your computer's firewall for direct modem connections. This is very important to get the most important part of the test to run.


DSLReports

Here's also the Line Quality Tests FAQ to help you understand the results. This will answer some questions about the line quality display.

[catra619]

how do i go about turning on the ping? i looked all around the windows fire wall but dont know what to do. Also i have Windows live one care as a firewall i think so any idea if i might look there? and iff so, where?

[JohnWill]

The ping response would be in the router configuration.