Why does my internet become very slow at night??

dA_HarV

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I tried to look up the answer online, and the only thing I found was that there is a lot of traffic eating up the bandwidth, but I honestly don't think that.

My normal download speeds are around 110 Kb/s, and ever since Monday (5/29/17) around 8 pm, my download speed drops down to around 1.5 Kb/s, even at one point down to a record low of 236 byte/s. What I am finding odd, is that this never happened before in the 5 years I had Frontier internet, and it always slows down around 8, and goes back to normal in the morning.

I know my neighbors are not stealing from me, because the closest neighbor I have is about 150 yards away from my router (I live in the country). I already tried buying a new modem, replacing my Ethernet cord, replacing the cord from the wall to the router, and making sure that I was the only one that is active on the router.

Any ideas on what it could be? Thanks

 
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USAFRet

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Create a log of exactly what happens.
What, when, how slow.

If you can show a history...even if just a few days, maybe the ISP can act on that.

Several years ago, I had a similar issue with my cable internet (Cox).
3/4/5 times a week, it would absolutely die in the evening, and work OK the next day when the ISP guy showed up to 'fix it'.

It got to the point where I could predict when it would die off to within 15 minutes.
Turns out, one of their upstream boxes was dying due to heat/humidity.
 
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dA_HarV

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Good idea, I will start doing that right away