HAS anyone noticed if their ISP servers are slower?

[turbinetree]

[BadgerKid]

1. It's the tubes on other side of your ISP

You would need to check, I think.

[MineralMan]

3. If they're clogged, Drano Gel will clear them.

You just pour it in, wait 15 minutes, then flush them out with cold water.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Actually Hot Water Is Fine With Those Type of Products

The cleaners based upon sulfuric acid, not so much.

Problem with water, hot or cold, is it's really hard on the laptop.

[HipChick]

2. Use Google DNS servers instead..

[sarcasmo]

4. Any tricks to changing your DNS switchboard.

[RKP5637]

7. This should help.

https://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/

[sarcasmo]

18. Thanks.

[RKP5637]

21. Hope it works out OK for you.

[RKP5637]

5. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RKP5637]

6. I was actually on one ISP way back that actually blocked many searches, for example,

for DU. I couldn't believe it. One day it suddenly started happening.

[LWolf]

8. At work, yes.

Not at home.

It's been explained to us that two teachers streaming Pandora have pushed our bandwidth past its limits, which is why everything keeps crashing.

I say it's more likely that, while our district has marched forward giving all students a device, and moved all systems to google and google drive, and pushed online programs, including adopting curriculum that is 100% online in some subjects, without increasing bandwidth, that it's their poor planning more than 2 teachers that are the problem.

We've been sternly ordered to stop streaming unless it's necessary for curriculum; frankly, that message was unwelcome to a few hundred students in the habit of streaming music to their headphones while they worked, lol.

So far, we've had no news about how the repeal of net neutrality will affect public education.

[ProudLib72]

14. Good God, blame the teachers!

So much like our education system. Admin chooses to go online without taking the necessary steps to ensure the network is up to it, and when it crashes, it's not their fault.

[LWolf]

22. Always.

No matter what side of the aisle, teachers and public ed are the scapegoats for all problems.

[LeftInTX]

9. Our internet slows during bad weather

For some reason it slowed the day after the FCC meeting, but I think it was a coincidence.

[fescuerescue]

30. This is a very real thing

Earlier in my career I worked for a major telco.

In their NOC (think big screens, showing maps across the country of equipment - looks like NORAD), you can actually track storms, by equipment failures and restarts, as they move across the map.

Has to do with lightening strikes, power lines down, and people going inside and going online.

[MineralMan]

11. Here in Minnesota, when the temperature drops below zero,

the Internet is very slow. That is due to the increased viscosity of the electronic fluid that flows through the intertubes.

I find that a common electric blanket, like people use on their beds, works very well to warm the fluid and speed things back up again.

I hope that helps.

[ProudLib72]

15. I made my dog sleep on the cable overnight

Just so I would have fast access to DU in the morning.

[MineralMan]

17. That'll do it, too. My dog insists on

sleeping on the bed, though, so it wouldn't work for me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Not enough room under the desk for a dog here

but I borrowed a page from Garrison Keillor, and got 2 cats.

problem solved......

[ProudLib72]

20. There is a problem with that, and it relates to the fundamental difference btwn cats and dogs

Cats seek out warm places. Dogs create warm places out of cold places. That is why you will often see a cat laying on top of a dog. I suggest you find a small dog (say a Pekinese or Shih tzu), put her bed under the desk, and that will draw the cats.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. Now THERE'S a computer hack that is useful.

Lacking, currently, the canine in the equation, I also thought I could sprinkle catnip under there.

Very interested in a solution because even this far South, bitter freezing air is supposed to hit us soon.
I'm afeered it will actually freeze the tubes, and just realized I have no idea of how thaw them.

[Wounded Bear]

29. Do you have three dogs for those really cold nights?

[highmindedhavi]

12. Nope, faster

just checked, 10 MPS faster than the last time I checked, Spectrum Los Angeles

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Yes. MSNBC has had frozen screens periodically through the day.

Small interruptions that are hardly noticeable unless someone asks the question you asked.

[GoCubsGo]

16. It has been spotty.

I blame some of it on the most recent Windows and Firefox upgrades, more than my ISP.

[BoneyardDem]

24. one of our kids got PS4...and we notice lag times on downloads and web play.

this atheist household decorates for the holidays...and we'd read somewhere recently, that the lights do somehow cause a slow down on wifi. So when the games are on the lights go down...and yes, it has made a big difference. I wonder if it's any lights or just the led's?

[ck4829]

25. Yes.

[Rene]

26. and why is this "Trusteer" software following me around to every site I open...forces me to

click OK to get rid of the popup screen right in the middle. Am I being tracked/how do I get rid of it?. Each different site I open..this popup appears and forces me to OK it.
Started yesterday all of a sudden.

[Leith]

27. Yes

I do a lot of livestreaming.

Yesterday, I was binge watching a TV show. The first episode was good. The second one lagged 4 times in the first minute on the second try. The only thing different was that hubby had started livestreaming his own show on another TV at the same time.

Even YouTube has started pausing in middle of video clips.

My ISP is Cox Cable.

[Ilsa]

28. Seems like it, occasionally, recently.

What has bugged me is sometimes Netflix acts like internet speed is too slow. That has really given me cause to consider that my ISP (xfinity) has throttled back.