Are you playing wi-fi? I dunno how much help I can give you, because my internet is also shit but it might be interference. Most routers operate on 2.4ghz, sadly so do tons of other appliances, microwaves especially.

Honestly, you're best off contacting your ISP. It's hard to troubleshoot with the information given.

I just disconnected/reconnected my Wireless adapter, still no luck. This is very frustrating, and for some reason it seems like TF 2 is causing some sort of problem. I am browsing the internet ok for the most part but when I try and play TF 2/use a browser in the background it screws up.

I'm hoping to try some stuff before I do that, so any tips are welcome.

i have this same issue, what is your isp?

RTC Communications

I'd also like to add that my internet is much slower, and I did a speed test and my upload/download speeds are down a lot. I don't have the power to switch internet providers right now, and 2 days ago everything was perfect.

Here is a speed test from April:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2667493956.png

Here is one from today:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2744185685.png

Sounds like my ISP back home. Just call and complain, and they'll decide whether they want to do something about it.

Yeah, I plan on contacting them as soon as they are available, think they are closed atm. Really hope I can get this settled by Tuesday because the first match of the season starts then.

Did you check your speed when LANed to your router? Because if it's your wireless, there's all sorts of things that could be fucking it up.

I'm sorry if I sound ridiculous asking this, but do you mean to connect it directly rather than wireless? If so, the PC i'm on is completely on the other side of the house from my router. We do have a PC right next to the router I could test this on, but it is experiencing the same problems as this one.

And if I am completely off I apologize, i'm fairly clueless when it comes to this particular stuff.

I mean just that, if your PC is so far form your router that could justify all kinds of problems in the wifi connection due to electromagnetic interference between PC and router, other people using the same cahnnel, physical obstacles that are new, etc. If the other PC right next to the router has the same problems that seems unlikely of ocurse. But maybe it is the transmitter in the router that is broken. I definetely recommend wiring one PC to the router with a LAN cable and see how the connection is.

I took another speed test this morning, and my download speed is back to being close to what it was, though my upload is still at 1 mbps. I think this may just be a thing that my ISP is going through, and hopefully will resolve itself. If not, i'll be sure to try the LAN thing.

It's always perferable to be connected directly because there's so much craizness that can go on with wireless connections - at this point the technology just isn't there to have wireless be as reliable as wired connections.

If at all possible it's not *that* hard to get extremely long Ethernet cables (I paid like 20$ for mine) and route them in creative + interesting ways (I've routed them through dry wall, through floors, tacked them to base boards, you name it). If you're renting just use some tape, if you live at home and your parents are affraid of cables being all over, explain that the wireless is being crap, and either move your PC closer or get creative with some drills and or tape.

Then once you are on LAN do the following tests.

in CMD: ping www.google.com -n 50

Report if there is any packet loss or high ping variation.

Ping www.whitehouse.gov -n 50 (this will show your connections east in most cases, I believe the servers are located in Chicago for the website currently).

Again report the same.

If pings are high to either of these two websites do a tracert in CMD:

tracert www.google.com and/or tracert www.whitehouse.gov

That will show you if your connection is screwing up somewhere along the line - also if you get massive ping somewhere during the hops look up the IP address and see where it is located - sometimes bad connection and dropping will occur because somewhere down the chain you're being routed to some really stupid place because something is broken somewhere and only your ISP can tell you if it'll get any better.

If you are experiencing packet loss then you need to call your ISP because something is broken somewhere between you and the computers you're calling.

But in general I'm willing to wager it's wireless being wireless.

If you don't feel like having a LAN cable the size of the midgardsnake going through your entire house, you can see if DLAN is an option for you. It is a form of sorcery where the LAN signal gets sent through your power cables (it will not burn your house down). It does not work in every household because of different power circuits, but you can just buy the thing and send it back if it doesn't work. It is extremely simple to set up and will give you an all around better connection than WLAN. If you find out that it actually is you wifi that is capping you, look into DLAN.