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Posted by Bill M. on September 8, 2007, 5:45 pm
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>I'm on basic high-speed which is supposed to be 384 kbps download and
>128 kbps upload. When I'm connecting at my normal speed a little above
>that.
Do you have any idea who your ISP is? I don't think it's their
problem, but I'm curious who it is because I've never heard of such
low speeds being offered by a cable ISP.
Is it possible that they throttle you after a certain amount of
activity?
>You seem to be stuck on my PC being compromised when I don't think that
>is the problem.
Well, the indicators point to your PC. That's all any of us can go by.
>I think I could tell because of the anti- softwares I
>use and my browsing habits. Trust me, I practice safe hex!
Nothing personal, but we have no reason to trust that you perform safe
hex. After all, you have a problem you're trying to fix, so apparently
the condom broke, if you know what I mean.
>I run a firewall that doesn't let anything connect out or in unless I
>allow it. I doubt my PC is compromised.
Firewalls are notorious for bugging their owners to the point where
the owner allows something that they shouldn't have allowed, or they
allow something that later gets hijacked by malware. A router makes a
better firewall than a firewall does.
>I will monitor my network activity, I started doing that about 45
>minutes ago and there is not a lot of network activity when my PC is idle.
You said the slowness takes awhile to show up, so be patient and keep
monitoring.
>I use SeaMonkey. I doubt something pre-fetching web pages is going to
>kill my connection?
It could, especially since your connection is throttled down so low to
begin with. You're not that far above dial-up speed, so any extra
network activity might be enough to be noticeable.
>That is the whole point. There appears to be nothing out of the ordinary
>taking up CPU time or network bandwidth. When I lose my modem speed then
>pages load slowly, name resolution is slow also.
You keep saying you're losing your "modem speed". I know what you
mean, but it sounds funny because the problem likely has nothing to do
with your modem.
>> If nothing else, I strongly recommend adding a router between your PC
>> and cable modem.
>
>My firewall protects me. I'm not adding a router at this point.
Your firewall is on the same PC you're trying to protect. There isn't
a whole lot of protection there.
>Thanks for taking the time to try and help. You've given me some things
>to look while I continue to study the problem.
You're welcome.
--
Bill
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