Bacon

I ran AVG and came up with nothing. Maybe I should do Adaware/Spybot too?

Yes, I did the TCP Optimizer, and it still occasionally goes extremely slow. And the advertised speed is 6Mbps.

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 12749 Kbps about 12.7 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1556 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/11/11 - 7:39pm Bottom Line:: 222X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.66 sec Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 7.813 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 130.92 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-0PWDO5B7I User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 [!] That's what I had when I first booted up my computer. I then started downloading a torrent, but after a while I saw it was only downloading at ~30-40 kb/s, where it should have been going much, much faster (40 seeds and 400 peers). I then closed BitComet (the only program I had started since booting my computer), and ran the download test again, and got this :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 3403 Kbps about 3.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 415 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/11/11 - 8:20pm Bottom Line:: 59X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.47 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 7.203 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 61.64 % of your hosts average (comcast.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-JCZUR6419 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 [!] And sure enough it was operating at 1/4 of the speed it was originally. Any ideas on how to correct this?