If you go to this website you can choose from several independently created tests which will check your computer and its connection to the internet, and tell you if there's any signs of limiting (or 'throttling') of your downloads or uploads
or your streaming videos, etc., and give you details in its results reports. Some of those tests are not yet compatible with the latest operating systems, but the
more important ones are working quite well, and will give you a good idea if your ISP is doing something to limit your use of the available bandwidth, or if
a problem is simply the result of system congestion, which, by the way, is becoming more and more of a problem as everybody from here to Bunga-Bunga
surfs the wild wild web and sports fans from downtown to the alligator-infested reaches of the Limpopo River, home of the Wild Women of Wongo, play those internet games or send messages to one another, now that bonfires and blankets have gone out of fashion as communication devices. Get the picture?
Did it pause to buffer every few seconds as it came in? This website can tell you why, I betcha, in case it isn't just because you haven't dumped your temporary internet files folder lately. So check it first, and then this other one, before you call the servicemologist with his $120-an-hour skills. Be a cheapskate like me. Do it yourself and save.
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