slow downloads

My laptop used to download videos super fast but now I can leave for an hour and it hasnt even finished. Is there something wrong with my system?
is there something i can buy to speedit up or do i need a new laptop?

mardessa1

 

oh, woe to struggles of internet bandwidth.

 

Are you using a router? Check your router sync speed with your ISP. It could also be some malware eating up your bandwidth, or someone else using your connection without you knowing (someone in your house for example).

 

Depends on where you're downloading from. Does it happen on other sites? Other places? If you're talking about bittorrent and such, a lot of ISP's have started throttling peer-to-peer speeds (which makes downloading Linux ISO's a pain). Can you see if downloading one of these videos goes any faster? If so, the issue is either the server or peer to peer being throttled. Not much you can do in either case, aside from complain to the server admin or your ISP.

I certainly hope that wasn't intended as a flame or a troll... it definitely didn't contribute to the discussion.

 

how do i check my router sync speed and where can i find my isp.

 

An ISP is whoever you get your Internet through, like Comcast or Cox or Verizon. Your "router sync speed" is probably the speed that your modem thinks that it's negotiating. Also try out something like www.speedtest.net and see if you are getting "normal" speeds for your service.

 

btw... are you using torrent or direct download from the site?
regarding torrent, like pitabred already wrote, some provider put some cap on the connection speed to this kind of p2p activities... but if you using utorrent, the encryption can help lil bit regarding this matter... at least thats what work for my situation tho...

 

We need a lot more info about where you are downloading from and how you are connecting to the internet to determine if you have a problem or not. Are there other people connected at the same house? Any details?