Fast But Slow Internet

Rascomid · Oct 21, 2014

Hi there, over the past few weeks I have been noticing my browser being slow at times. The odd time it will respond quite quickly whereas other times it will be really slow and take ages to load a webpage. This is also a problem on my Xbox when online, I tend to lag quite a bit at times.

My internet speeds are:

Download - 17.2
Upload-0.7

Any help will be appreciated thanks

kanewolf · Oct 21, 2014

Wired or wireless? What are you using for the DNS server IP addresses?

Rascomid · Oct 21, 2014

They are both wireless because I have no way of getting an Ethernet cable from my room to the router. I am not sure what I am using?

kanewolf · Oct 21, 2014

Rascomid :

With wireless, do you live in an apartment where there will be MANY competing wireless signals? Have you looked at what competing WIFI signals you have with something like WIFI Analyzer ?

For gaming, you will ALWAYS be more consistent with wired networking. Even powerline networking will be much more consistent than wireless.

To really verify if there is a problem with your internet provider you need to use wired for benchmarking. Wireless has too many variables to be used as a benchmark. If you can take a laptop and connect wired to your router, that will give you the best indication if you are having ISP problems..

You should login to your router and manually override the DNS providers that your ISP is giving you with the Google DNS servers to see if that improves your browsing. It won't change the lag in games.

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