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Slow or dropped connection since moving

Started by oldertoot , Jan 01 2012 10:12 PM

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oldertoot

Posted 01 January 2012 - 10:12 PM

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I live in a rural area and have a wireless Internet service where customers are provided with an antenna mounted on the house that draws a signal from a radio antenna mounted on a water tower nearby in the village. I have 768 /256 kbps download/upload. I have been getting decent service until recently. I have been experiencing connection speed slowdowns and drops since moving to a new location not far (5 blocks) from my old residence in town. The tech has been here once to check my connection and router and helped the situation for a day, then back to the same problem as before. The ISP tech now says that a massive download from Amazon.com is throttling my download bandwith. Is that feasible or is he giving me the runaround? Time to go to DSL or cable? Thanks for the help.

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phillpower2

Posted 02 January 2012 - 10:23 AM

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Try flushing the DNS cache "how to" below;

1.Press Windows+R to bring up the Run dialog box.
2.Type cmd and press ok.
3.In the command prompt that comes up enter ipconfig /flushdns and press return and your done.