Help my internet is very slow through a router

[Concordia]

I'm lost here, I am connected to a linksys router and my internet goes so ungodly slow. I have put up with it for one semester now at school but can't take it anymore. I went to this address http://www.cable-modem.net/features/oct99/speed.html to test my internet speed, well my highest score was 13 and my lowest was 3 which is below a 56k modem. My roomate however scores a 150+ and is hooked into the router as well. Anyone have a clue why his internet works great and mine is so horrible? Also, I just ran adaware the other day and cleared up like 263 files, but this didn't improve my internet any. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated...I will call my cable company if nobody can think of a problem, I just dont' think they'll help since my roomates computer works fine and mine doesn't being over a router. Also I was thinking about reformatting my hdd would this do anything? Thank you for your time.

 

[horhey]

it sounds as if there is nothing wrong with your router. If there was a problem your roommates score whould not be so much higher than yours. What OS are you using?and roommate?

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

If you've tried swapping cables and ports on the router with your roommate with no results, it's time to start looking at your configuration.

You can start by downloading QCheck, install it on both systems, and do an end-to-end throughput test. If the speed is OK, this will eliminate your TCP/IP stack and network hardware from being the cause. Then you start looking for spyware/malware/virus infections. Finally, you get out your O/S disks and reload if all else fails.

 

[CKDragon]

My girlfriend and her 4 friends that are on their apartment network used to have this problem. I went and installed Norton on all their systems and of course their computers had viruses from the Commodore 64 era. After cleaning them all up, the network ran perfectly.

I wouldn't recommend wasting your time calling the cable company, it sounds like they're holding up their end of the bargain. Sounds like it's just your computer.

 

[onelin]

Which router do you have? Also, you may want to use a better test. dslreports.com has a list of 200+