I've been forced to move into the country; 6 miles from the nearest town/city in every direction. I now have 999 ping on league of legends and there's no way in hell I'll be able to the TES:O. But I'm planning on moving to Lithuania. Their ISP provides a solid 86 mbps download AND upload constantly. And thanks to the U.S. government being buttsore about not being able to regulate laws on the internet...they attacked every ISP in the U.S. also. No more unlimited service, so they taxed them. There's a data limit and if you go over, every 1gb of data is 10$ and the limit is 100 gigs for me. I usually use 300 gigs a day.

I really gotta get out of this country. Who else has internet they can't even use now?

At the moment, I can use my Internet just fine...

I'm going to university next week, so I'm not entirely sure how good my internet will be up there. Granted, it can't be any worse than the 0.2kbps-at-peak-hours internet I have right now.

Where do you live? I thought data-limits were a thing of the past... Though they came back in the Netherlands for mobile internet (on a phone).

My aunt has crap internet - att dsl. I dont know what is wrong exactly. I tested ping and download speed at dslreports and they are good but browsing websites is still slow.
edit: and no I dont live with my aunt. just trying to help out.

Your aunt's internet is probably slow because she has a really bad processor or limited RAM. It likely has nothing to do with her actual ISP at all.

This would be my assessment as well... To confirm, check to see how much the computer is using virtual memory. If the hard drive never seems to stop reading and writing, then that's a strpong superficial indicator of low RAM, as the computer is using the HD to act as RAM. Check the maximum amount of RAM your aunt's computer can handle and see how much is in it now. Go ahead and order the maximum, taking into account the upper limits of 32-bit configuration. If you can max the memory out without needing to convert to 64-bit, or if she's already using 64-bit, then that should solve the problem, or at least improve performance significantly.

I apologize if I am telling you stuff you already know. But you would be surprised by how many simply don't think about this sort of thing and are quick to blame the ISP for something that their own machine is causing. I was in that boat before I started working for a computer parts store and learned how to build computers and a bit about the more technical side of things. I will never claim to be an expert, but if I have run into a problem before, I can use what I learn to help others...

Well she is running xp on 1G of memory. I dont know the cpu but with 1G of memory its old but not that old. Anyway, it was also slow when I used my laptop through her wireless router. Could be a junk router? I probably should have checked if she is encrypted, but then i dont think in her neighborhood the neighbors are likely to be jacking her wireless. I guess thats possible tho.

Even out here in the boondocks of Snohomish WA, I have pretty decent internet.

Holy crap, 300gb of data a day? Is that normal? what do you do to rack that up??