It may not be your internet, unless you are in a building with a lot of other people using the same wifi connection. If it is your own internet provider, you should look first at your virus protection. Sometimes it is set to do a scan too often, and “in the background.” When that happens everything on your system, especially the internet will be slow. Also, if others in the household are using the internet at the same time, especially doing updates like iTunes and MicroSoft, they will slow every computer down until the download is complete. The same will happen if they are updating on your system….Microsoft does a lot of its updates automatically in the background, and when they are going on, you might as well just go out to eat and come back later. So as a general rule, it is your computer and what it is doing, rather than your IP service, or the number of people using the service at the same time and what their computers are doing.
Another thing that can occur. Like with cell phones, some IP providers tend to slow users down a bit if they have used near their paid bandwidth for the month. Some services tend to be better than others. At work we have Earthlink business service, it is fast at the beginning of the month, but slow toward the end of the month. It also slows down badly when MS and Apple are doing updates to our machines, or when we are updating our Cloud storage and syncing our machines. At home we have ATT Uverse, it is always very fast, even when updates are happening and several of us are online and even streaming TV at the same time. Yet, Netflix streams well and Hulu Plus is jerky directly through our Sony TV, even when no one in the house is using a computer. I’m guessing it’s the Sony Entertainment Network program in the TV, since the same thing does not happen through the Roku box, if we use it instead.
When your computer is slow, check to see if it is doing a virus scan, and program it to do that when you are not using the computer. Set MS and Apple updates to happen when you are less likely to be trying to use the computer. Be sure others in the house also set their updates the same way. If you are in a building that gives “free wifi” as part of the rent, you just have to live with it, or subscribe to an individual IP through your cable service or a DSL provider to have consistently fast internet.
that is normal ..i have this prob too
It may not be your internet, unless you are in a building with a lot of other people using the same wifi connection. If it is your own internet provider, you should look first at your virus protection. Sometimes it is set to do a scan too often, and “in the background.” When that happens everything on your system, especially the internet will be slow. Also, if others in the household are using the internet at the same time, especially doing updates like iTunes and MicroSoft, they will slow every computer down until the download is complete. The same will happen if they are updating on your system….Microsoft does a lot of its updates automatically in the background, and when they are going on, you might as well just go out to eat and come back later. So as a general rule, it is your computer and what it is doing, rather than your IP service, or the number of people using the service at the same time and what their computers are doing.
Another thing that can occur. Like with cell phones, some IP providers tend to slow users down a bit if they have used near their paid bandwidth for the month. Some services tend to be better than others. At work we have Earthlink business service, it is fast at the beginning of the month, but slow toward the end of the month. It also slows down badly when MS and Apple are doing updates to our machines, or when we are updating our Cloud storage and syncing our machines. At home we have ATT Uverse, it is always very fast, even when updates are happening and several of us are online and even streaming TV at the same time. Yet, Netflix streams well and Hulu Plus is jerky directly through our Sony TV, even when no one in the house is using a computer. I’m guessing it’s the Sony Entertainment Network program in the TV, since the same thing does not happen through the Roku box, if we use it instead.
When your computer is slow, check to see if it is doing a virus scan, and program it to do that when you are not using the computer. Set MS and Apple updates to happen when you are less likely to be trying to use the computer. Be sure others in the house also set their updates the same way. If you are in a building that gives “free wifi” as part of the rent, you just have to live with it, or subscribe to an individual IP through your cable service or a DSL provider to have consistently fast internet.