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So I have the 6mb connection with Comcast and in the last 2 to 3 days the internet became very slow.  That eventually led me here where what I found astounded me.  Speeds similar to this:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 155 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)

Download Speed is:: 19 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2008/10/03 - 4:00am

Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 53.89 sec

Tested from a 512 kB file and took 27.027 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 2.48 % of your hosts average (comcast.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-PVI4Q97TE

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 NET_mmhpset [!]

I contacted Comcast through there online chat where they proceeded to reset the modem on their end, then had me turn off my computer and reset my modem.  After I did all that, what I found was that my internet no longer worked at all for the past 5 hours.  I spent a lot of time trying to get it to work, when randomly it started working again, but still at these horrendously slow speeds.

So, I ask, any ideas what could be the problem?  For the record, I did a bunch of virus, adware, etc. scans and cleaned my computer as well as cleaned my registry.  I'm gonna give them a call some time tomorrow, assuming it doesn't get fixed by then.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Just wanted to let you know, the internet completely died not too long after I posted that message.  Called Comcast the next day.  They got a technician out earlier today and it turns out that the modem they gave me was faulty.  They swapped it out with a new one and everything is back in tip-top shape.

Thanks for the reply's though, I really do appreciate it.

And in case you were wondering:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 6667 Kbps about 6.7 Mbps (tested with 25600 kB)

Download Speed is:: 814 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2008/10/07 - 12:20pm

Bottom Line:: 116X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.26 sec

Tested from a 25600 kB file and took 31.455 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 6.6 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NT5F6JVUQ

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 NET_mmhpset [!]

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