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Why has my internet connection so bad lately? HELP!?

I play a lot of xbox and use xbox live and normally have the best connection out of all my friends, but recently I have been so laggy! Lagging out of partys, out of games, disconnecting and videos on youtube being laggu and rendering like crazy. This

NEVER happens to me! I might lag out of the party once in a while but I join back and its all good, but now I lag out and im in for 1 minute and Im out again! I always use wireless because wired is not an option and ive never had a problem, even if other people are on the internet. Its not just xbox either, whats been happening a lot is that for some reason it will say im connected to the internet and the lights on the router will look normal but on xbox I connect to the network but connecting to the internet fails, or on the PC i go on the web page and the page doesn't come up. I've tried unplugging it and plugging it back in and it works sometimes. Normally I have to wait a little bit and will work again. But I continue to lag and my videos dont load and its really getting frusterating. So if you took your time to read all that I appreciate it and please help me fix my internet!! BTW I have eastlink internet and I've never had problems before, just the last couple of days.

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  • 8 years ago
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    If your wifi is not secured, others may be using your connection. I suggest for the time being logging in and changing the password to your wifi. Also, other wireless devices can interfere with the router signal. while you're logged in you should find the option to change the router channel frequency. If that doesn't help, try connecting to the internet directly through the modem for a while and see if the problem persists. If so, it's more than likely the provider having issues (or a faulty modem, though less likely). If that doesn't help, contact customer support for eastlink to see if they can tell you if there have been connection issues in your area.

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