Hi, after the release of Diablo 3 I noticed that I got lag spikes and terrible latency throughout the game, other than that it takes me a while to load youtube videos. I attempted to get to the bottom of this slow internet issue.
When using my ISP's speed test I find that my speed is less than half of the other computers in my house. Originally I was using a USB network adapter (TP Link) and found that my speeds were a lot slower than that of the computer in the next room that's using a cable.
I then put the USB network adapter into that computer and found that it did not change the speed whatsoever, that being it stayed at the same speed as the cable.
I decided to buy a network card (TP-Link TL-WDN4800) and the speed test results were the same in my computer. I then tried using the cable from the next room and again returned the same speed (100kb/s ish), so I took my computer into the room that has the router (another room that gets faster speeds) and tried there to no avail.
I tried a number of malware scans(AdAware, Malware Bytes, Spyware Doctor) that returned a couple trojans which I erased and then decided to put my HDD into my brother's pc which is in the room with the router and finally got faster speeds. I also put his HDD into my PC and did a speed test and found it was still very slow. To me it seems the only thing that could be causing the lack of speeds is my motherboard, so I was wondering if this can actually happen and if I need to replace it or if something else is magically taking my internets.
Thanks for any help in advance! Have some specs in case something else could be a problem. I built this computer over a year ago and its mostly used for gaming.
Mobo - ASUS P6T
CPU - Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 Ghz
GPU - 1GB Sapphire Radeon HD 6850
Network Adapter - TP-Link TL-WDN4800 RAM - 12GB of Kingston DDR3 1600mhz (set of 3 sticks) and 6GB of Ram that I believe runs at 1333mhz.
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
When using my ISP's speed test I find that my speed is less than half of the other computers in my house. Originally I was using a USB network adapter (TP Link) and found that my speeds were a lot slower than that of the computer in the next room that's using a cable.
I then put the USB network adapter into that computer and found that it did not change the speed whatsoever, that being it stayed at the same speed as the cable.
I decided to buy a network card (TP-Link TL-WDN4800) and the speed test results were the same in my computer. I then tried using the cable from the next room and again returned the same speed (100kb/s ish), so I took my computer into the room that has the router (another room that gets faster speeds) and tried there to no avail.
I tried a number of malware scans(AdAware, Malware Bytes, Spyware Doctor) that returned a couple trojans which I erased and then decided to put my HDD into my brother's pc which is in the room with the router and finally got faster speeds. I also put his HDD into my PC and did a speed test and found it was still very slow. To me it seems the only thing that could be causing the lack of speeds is my motherboard, so I was wondering if this can actually happen and if I need to replace it or if something else is magically taking my internets.
Thanks for any help in advance! Have some specs in case something else could be a problem. I built this computer over a year ago and its mostly used for gaming.
Mobo - ASUS P6T
CPU - Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 Ghz
GPU - 1GB Sapphire Radeon HD 6850
Network Adapter - TP-Link TL-WDN4800 RAM - 12GB of Kingston DDR3 1600mhz (set of 3 sticks) and 6GB of Ram that I believe runs at 1333mhz.
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit