Slow Internet Speed? Why?

The internet in some sense is worst then a highway because it’s hard to predict how many cars are going in and out. The difference though is that with the internet it is electrical signals that go instead of cars.

1. Just because you have a connection that should be 100 Mbps doesn't mean you will get it at that speed, it all depends on the place you’re downloading FROM.  So if I have a 3.6/0.5 Mbps speeds setup which means I can download at 3.6 Mbps and upload at 0.5 Mbps, it doesn’t matter how fast your download speed should be you would get the file at 0.5 Mbps because I can’t send it to you any faster.


2. Think of the internet connection in terms of you going grocery shopping, if you don`t pick the right time you could stand there for at minutes until you get the chance to pay and leave,  but if you get there when there is almost no costumers, then you can pay and leave much faster.  Your ISP tells you the speeds you can get UP TO, not necessarily the speed you WILL GET.


3. If you have many computers connected to your home network or internet connection or even several programs accessing the internet at the same time then you will experience slower download and upload speeds than if you have just one computer connected with fewer applications running.

4. The quality of the modem you’re using is also a key factor in the speed equation.

5. The Windows Registry is the master control center for your operating system and the applications it runs.  Corruption or overload registry issues can cause all sorts of pc performance problems, including poor application startup times, slow Windows start-up, extremely slow shut down, slow internet surfing, inability to resume from computer sleep and more.  Cleaning, compacting, and optimizing your Windows registry can go a long way to dramatically speeding up your computer’s performance, start-up and shutdown speed.