cable slowdown

[lisabob2]

I have @home cable connection which was great.
Now it is slow on the downstream. Use to get T-1 speeds now around 60 kps.
Anybody have any idea what could cause slowdown?
I had a @home tech here and his laptop got great speed, so it is in my computer.
It was fine until a few months ago.
Hardware still the same.
I use a usb ethernet adapter, I thought maybe I have too much on usb, I use a keyboard and mouse through usb.
Another weird thing is my online gaming is very fast, I play team fortress classic and I always have good pings.
Things I was thinking of doing:
1. Get a 10/100 nic card
2. REformatt hardrive and start over with a clean drive.
3. Put another hardrive in computer and run of of it to see if it was something my daughter downloaded.
any ideas?

 

[brabus241]

I'm also a cable modem user at home and I wish they would upgrade their infastructure...or stop adding more suscribers...You mentioned getting a new 10/100 NIC. That wouldn't probably be your bottle neck because the cable modem only has a 10mbps card inside it. Even if your HDD is like 2 or 3 years old, it'll have a 33mbps transfer rate, aka ATA 33. I can't explain why your particular computer is getting low bandwidth...sowwie!

 

[Guest]

Visit www.speedguide.net and try some of their recommendations.

 

[lisabob2]

Thanks for the reply, well I put my other hardrive from the other computer, and my connection is super fast. Something on my hardrive is slowing me down.
I am going to reformat and start from scratch.
Both hard drives are ibm ide deskstars, actually I am going from a 5400 rpm drive to a 7200 one, plus 8.4 gb to 20 gb so it works out better anyway.
thanks again
Bob