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So I was having some serious issues with my internet, it would connect, but I would have errors with downloads and streaming videos and music was painfully slow. I installed a bandwidth monitor and noticed that I was only getting around 1.4 of the 10Mbps supported by my DSL Modem/router/provider.
I was poking around in my network settings and finally went to my routers IP in my browser and started snooping around the LAN network settings (it was a wired connection at that point). There, as an attempt to narrow down the problem, I switched from "auto configuration: DHCP" to a static IP and entered the DNS servers manually.
Immediately after saving these settings all my problems stopped; streaming speeds were back to normal, web browsing was lightning fast, and my bandwidth jumped up to the advertised speed of 10Mbps Down.
Any ideas as to why this would fix the problem; note if the explanation can't be summarized easily don't worry about it. I'm sure I learn about sometime in the future, even though I'm a CE major and not a CS one, and so know much more about hardware and physical circuitry then software and networking.
I was poking around in my network settings and finally went to my routers IP in my browser and started snooping around the LAN network settings (it was a wired connection at that point). There, as an attempt to narrow down the problem, I switched from "auto configuration: DHCP" to a static IP and entered the DNS servers manually.
Immediately after saving these settings all my problems stopped; streaming speeds were back to normal, web browsing was lightning fast, and my bandwidth jumped up to the advertised speed of 10Mbps Down.
Any ideas as to why this would fix the problem; note if the explanation can't be summarized easily don't worry about it. I'm sure I learn about sometime in the future, even though I'm a CE major and not a CS one, and so know much more about hardware and physical circuitry then software and networking.