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Old 09-28-2012, 11:00 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Tj.GSR View Post
The only online game i play on my computer is WoW and it is choppy to the point where it is not enjoyable.
Open a command prompt and do "ping 8.8.8.8 -t" and let it run for awhile... up to an hour if you have time. CTRL-C to stop it. Are you getting packet loss?

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I also noticed that sometimes i can not even watch a YouTube video at 1080p and full screen.
This might be a red herring. Could be your computer that can't keep up with full screen 1080p YouTube.

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There are 3 laptops, 2 ipads, and about 4 phones constantly hooked up to the wireless. I completely turned off the wireless this morning and my results were not much different. My best results actually with SpeedTest had the wireless on. I believe the internet is supposed to be 15mbps and im at:
Your throughput looks totally fine. Do you have Optik TV as well or not?

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But is there any way i can get more speed out of this internet. I was talking to a family member this morning and he pretty much told the problem may be that there are too many users in this area so the internet gets bogged down quite a bit. I am also posting this at 10:49am so this is not the busiest time of day either.
Nope, that shouldn't be it. It's an issue that relates to cable Internet, not DSL.
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