Hi,
I've been having a certain frustrating problem ever since yesterday.
Various sites have suddenly become sluggish when loading and download speeds are horrendous to the point that I cannot enjoy my daily online routine.
These are all from sites I visit daily and have had no problem with the for years.
I checked various speed test sites and I average a ping of 23ms, DL speed around 11Mbps, UL speed around 0.8Mbps.
My ISP is a small provider called Megatel that uses TelstraClear's broadband and I am using an old ADSL2+ router (approx 5 yrs old).
I haven't had any problems like this for years; in fact everything was fine on Wednesday this week.
I tried changing DNS to google's one with not much improvement.
I called my ISP, and they said there is nothing wrong and they started blaming the overseas website providers, saying that speeds were dropping overseas not in NZ.
But I think the problem must lie elsewhere.
I have restarted my router many times, tried antivirus, rebooted my laptop - all to no avail.
I am using wireless, but my modem router is only 5 cms away from my laptop at all times.
As for my laptop, it is only a year old and my other PC tasks are working all fine.
I use Windows 7, have not updated service pack (tried that with my previous laptop and caused it to die from painfully slow speeds).
I live in Auckland CBD, ISP plan is 150G.
Please, help me fix this problem.