the possibility of it being a bad router has crossed my mind - but you wouldn't expect the internet speeds to vary with the time of day, if it were just bad hardware...

virus? gamer chat software?
 

I'd suspect your machine may have memory problems plus a possible virus. My son had a very slow system and there were two problems. His memory was eaten up every boot time by chat and game launch software that automatically loaded up and he had about 7 virus' one of which was in his boot sector.

If you have those memory hogs loaded, and there is traffic going on to update those...

You think you have it bad ? Every night for the past three weeks at exactly 9:00 PM, all my computers lose connection and I have to reset my modem and wireless router. My ISP claims that it's not a problem on their end. I've tested everything and everythng seems to be in proper order. My wireless channel is set to the absolute best signal it can do (and considering that this apartment is really small and the router doesn't have to broadcast more than maybe 10 feet with nothing in between in all directions means that I should have a good connection).
I've tested my connection over and over again, and EVERY NIGHT at EXACLTLY 9 pm, the connection drops out.

Yea I scanned my PC and there's no virus reported. Using COMODO CIS.

Though I noted since several weeks ago my system is loading quite slow at start-up but couldn't find what's wrong with it(had a thread about it in subsim).

Still that couldn't explain the always good connection from 4.30AM to 10AM.

If it just drops out then a restart would fix the problem then it's not that bad but if it prevented you from connecting to the internet for some hours then it's bad.

Oh well I'll wait for a month or two and if things wouldn't improve I may end my cable subscription and choose another. Better that than being pissed everyday and paying for it. The thing is the speed drops to unacceptable level( broadband wise) rendering it unfit to be called such.

I realize now even though youtube plays like a a still picture and speed test is awful my downloading of files enjoy a good speed.

I miss my youtube trash.

I looked in the internet and found many user with the same ISP as mine experiencing degraded performance after the ISP announced their migration to now Mega speed network just about a month ago from what usually hundreds of kbps. The biggest hit is from the international connections.

Ah well at least now I know now it's most likely the ISP. Bad ISP bad ISP . . . it feels more like a downgrade than an upgrade well at least it's Mega speed between 4.30 to a little more than 10 AM everyday which means my internet is now CRAP 80 percent of the time. Come to think of it Mega speed could mean both side of extremes, mega fast between 4.30-10Am and mega slow anytime else after all they didn't quite call it Mega Fast :nope:.

Oh well I'll wait for couple weeks more before terminating my cable internet. The Customer service told me they are upgrading the network so there are maintenance going on but somehow I got the feeling being lied to.

The thing is when I complained getting very poor speedtest fom international servers which I often use London and New York or Washington as references) then my speed test from those location would suddenly be good(over 1Mbps) but speed testing from other places such as the nearby Sydney would still give me 200kbps or even lower.

And today after complaining again the Customer service officer asked where I did my testing and I told her Sydney and voila now I have terrific speed testing from Sydney( about 1Mbps from then 200kbps but guess what still 200kbps or lower from Melbourne and Seoul :damn:. It's like every path is now tabbed and I'm being toyed with. I don't like this game I may pull the plug soon and if I found out this has to do with my activism I would escalate into RL Singapore activist in Jakarta even protesting alone and distributing leaflets. Jail here I come considering Singapore influence on my poor and corrupt country :hmmm:

just say you've done your testing all over the world:DL