Broadband is VERY extremely slow

[koolaidparty]

Let me explain this to you..

About 2 days ago I've noticed the VERY fast reduction in the speed my ISP is giving me. I use Charter Communications 3MBPS package. I'm used to getting 300kbps on almost every download, every website. Lately it's gone as low as 7kbps like I'm using dial up. I've done the dslreports test which concluded I have 2400 download and 170 upload like usual. I've done various netstat tests showing my hops to Charter were really good, 30ms-40ms, 15ms-20ms..

Nothing really bad. I have a Toshiba PCX2200 Cable Modem and a D-link 624revC Wireless Router. The router gives everyone else in the house wireless internet, and for me I have hardwired internet which goes through the router. I unplugged the router and just plugged it in directly into the PC and resulted in the same speeds.

Using Windows XP Professional SP 2 FULLY UP TO DATE.

This is an all of a sudden occurance, I've had great speeds for years. I need to know what options do I have. Should I buy another cable modem? I've done nothing to this modem, not dropped, not spilled anything on it. I've reset both modems to factory defaults last night and nothing has changed.

Please, someone help me!

[FunK]

Do the other PCs have this same issue or is it just your desktop?

If your speed tests are fast and your pings to your ISP are fast, where are you seeing the slowdown and what are you downloading. Issue may be past the ISP.

Have you tried any of the SG tweaks? If not, give em a shot. If you have installed them already, perhaps placing the orig configs back in place?

[koolaidparty]

Well, I seem to have fixed the problem. I had "IEEE 802.11 Authenticate" on and it seemed to slow a lot of my downloads down, and spiked in certain VoIP programs. Now it's fine, It's just a problem I fixed.. I don't have wireless but since I went back to defaults it assumed I did.