My connection is slooooooooow

[Sanius]

Hey guys, I cannot deal with my connections speed. I have cox.net and i'm located in Tulsa, OK. I am supposed to be getting download speeds of up to 500 KB/s but I never get anywhere near that (for example, fileplanet will give me about 40 or 60). Other people with my ISP or cable get much much faster download speeds then me, I have a 10 mbps network card and a linksys BEFCMU10 router.

Is my ISP ripping me off, or is it my own fault?

 

[Thorny]

turn off your router, wait 30 secs, then turn it on. Repeat when performance slows down. 95% of the time this is the prob, if not call cox