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Sep. 5th, 2008 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Last night my internet connection was slow -- really slow. I had worked overtime and come home late, then worked on writing for a bit, so I really hadn't noticed it until after 8 PM when I actually tried to log in to City of Heroes and also do some web surfing. Itunes took forever to load a page and had to pause multiple times just to play a single 10 second song sample -- and web pages were taking several minutes to load.
At first I thought that maybe it was just Comcast acting up. I briefly wondered if I had a virus -- but I have protection and I'm generally careful, I hardly ever run into virus problems.
That left the possibility that someone was leeching from my wifi -- leeching a lot. I mean, I play online games, sometimes I run two City of Heroes sessions at once and I've run 4 Second Life sessions simultaneously, and I web surf, broadcast music to Nara's web radio station -- I do a lot of things on the internet and nothing I do slows everything down like I was experiencing last night.
Out of curiosity I looked at my network computers. I saw two computers I didn't recognize. That clinched it. I've never password protected my wifi (I still don't actually know how, and it's never been a problem before) but I knew how to log in to my router and turn the wifi off (well... this took a bit of work to remember, and I had to reset the router since I couldn't remember my login/password) but, amazingly, once I'd done that, my internet service was suddenly blazingly fast again!
Stupid neighbors. If they hadn't been so greedy with the bandwidth I might not have even noticed.
At first I thought that maybe it was just Comcast acting up. I briefly wondered if I had a virus -- but I have protection and I'm generally careful, I hardly ever run into virus problems.
That left the possibility that someone was leeching from my wifi -- leeching a lot. I mean, I play online games, sometimes I run two City of Heroes sessions at once and I've run 4 Second Life sessions simultaneously, and I web surf, broadcast music to Nara's web radio station -- I do a lot of things on the internet and nothing I do slows everything down like I was experiencing last night.
Out of curiosity I looked at my network computers. I saw two computers I didn't recognize. That clinched it. I've never password protected my wifi (I still don't actually know how, and it's never been a problem before) but I knew how to log in to my router and turn the wifi off (well... this took a bit of work to remember, and I had to reset the router since I couldn't remember my login/password) but, amazingly, once I'd done that, my internet service was suddenly blazingly fast again!
Stupid neighbors. If they hadn't been so greedy with the bandwidth I might not have even noticed.
