why is my internet so slow?

Question

i was playing an online game and its lags. My internet it verizon fios, so why is my internet so slow?

Answer 1

Steven:



You ask a loaded question. Now lets play - "Where's the bottleneck?"



FYI - I hate Verizon, but their FIOS infrastructure is top notch.



Your PC:

How old is your PC?

Have you ran any diags on it lately?

Does your PC meet or exceed your online game specs?

Do you connect wirelessly or via a hard connection (CAT5e or better)?



Your LAN: (Local Area Network / your wireless router)

When you do intensive I/O on the internet, do you notice the same degradation of performance? (When you download large files, do you see a difference?)

Has the speed slowed over time or has it always been slow?

Do you reboot your router / ISP modem every few days?



Your WAN: (Wide Area Network / Verizon FIOS)

I listed a few sites below that can test your internet speed.

If after you answer all these questions, then I would call in Verizon for a stress test on their side.



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Answer 2

It could possibly be that you may have bad connection and you need to fix your router or you hav too much memory on your computer. However, you may can easily speed up your internet by clearing your web cache. This is the amount of space reserved for temp files. Here is how:



Manual steps to erase your temporary internet files.



1. Quit Internet Explorer, Firefox, or any other web browser

2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Internet Options.

3. On the General tab, click Delete Files under Temporary Internet Files.

4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box , and then click OK.

5. Click OK.



If you prefer not to delete all the files you can selective search each category and delete. The temporary files are broken up into six categories. To view your internet files follow the steps below:

In Internet Explorer



1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Choose Internet Options from the Tools menu.

3. Click the General, Under Temporary Internet Files, Click Settings.

4.Click View Files

5. Delete selected files

Answer 3

If you are running any P2P applications, try shutting it off or at least limiting the upload to a maximum of 75% of your total upload bandwidth. A bottleneck on your upload is quite often the reason the internet can seem slow.



TCP, the reliable transmission protocol used across the internet, relies on reply packets to tell the other end that they received portions of data. If your upload bandwidth is saturated, then those packets will not be sent in a timely manner and this will cause the lag you are seeing.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Thanks!

Answer 6

it could have bad connection or your computer is damaged that it doesnt recieve the connection.. you should check it out.. sorry..