Slow internet speeds on ONE of my computers! HELP!

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Basically, it started out with me streaming on a program called OBS. Usually, when i streamed, i never lagged at all. No frame drops and steady ping. However, today, i was noticing that it was spiking from 62 ms up to 79 ms on League of Legends. Normally, i would stay a steady 62 ms. So something was definitely up.

Then it dawned on me about a program called Driver Booster. Everything was going swell until i remember downloading a LAN/ETHERNET driver from Driver Booster. After that, i never streamed until now. So maybe that had something to do with this?

I did a speed test, and randomly i started getting around about 22 MB/s DL/10 MB/s UP.

Its always gone 280 MB/s /15 MB/s UP.

So i thought it was my ISP being slow. I waited for 5 hours to test my water again. And to no avail, it was exactly the same way.

I started to get agitated, so i pulled out my laptop to see if it was just this computer. I ran a speed test on my laptop after unplugging my LAN cord, and my laptop hit the solid speeds that it should. So now i isolated the problem primarily to this computer.

Things I have tried:

Uninstalling the Network drivers and reinstalling the correct one that goes with my motherboard.
Restarted my computer.
Ran malwarebytes and ASC.

Nothing detected any problems, and i'm starting to get really worried. Can anyone please help me with this? I'll sit here and message nonstop all the information you need. I just want to get this fixed.
 
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Your IPV4 addressing may be messed up. Try this: Open your network and sharing center. Next to "Connections" click on Ethernet. Click Properties. Locate and double-click "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)". Set you IP and DNS to obtain the addresses automatically. If that is already selected, contact your ISP and ask what the proper formatting is for their connections.
 
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I've already changed the DNS servers. Nothing worked so far. Its still sitting at the same, slow 20 MB/s speed. Its not the ISP as i stated earlier. But thanks, though. ;~; And also, i tested both the auto and the manual DNS server... and both the same speeds.
 
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Ok, is this a wired or wireless connection? You could try swapping out cables for a cabled connection.
 
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I'm directly hardwired, and never had wireless on this desktop. I don't even have an adapter. :L And as i said before, its only this computer. I hardwired my laptop and it got the speed it should get. But for some reason, this one literally sits at 17-20 MB/s on speedtest.
 
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Check your Internet IP address on the problem computer and on the laptop (do a Google search for "what's my ip"). They should be the same. But if the drivers and other program you installed added a proxy/VPN, it'll be different. Some malware will pipe all your Internet traffic through a proxy/VPN owned by the malware author, allowing him to eavesdrop on all your secure Internet connections. One of the side-effects is slowing down your Internet connection (you're being limited by the proxy's speed). Malware scans often won't pick it up because there are legitimate reasons to use a proxy/VPN.
 
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Honestly, you might be on to something.
Both IP are different. They have some of the same characters, but i've literally never seen myself have a 'public' IP before. And thats what shows up.

 
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