My home desktop is set up wifi and it's being problematic. If I leave the connection up, internet access for everything keeps keeting slower and laggierover time. After several days it will drop to about a third of the normal speed, andping times jump to three or four times normal. Left long enough it will get so bad that I will begin getting timeout errors.
It isn't a bug, or at least not one that my three forms of ad/malware detects. Nor is it a rootkit. I've run several different detectors for that to. Also, there doen't seem to be any appreciable change in internet traffic volume as the speed and ping time drops. Finally, if I go into wifi on the computer and do a quick Disconnect/Connect in settings, speed and ping pop right back to normal and the process begins anew. I should add that the problem has been around for a couple years. My solution was to leave the connection down most of the time, enabling connectivity for a day or two each week for malware & system uodates and such.
Something is hogging resources but I've run out of things to try. Power cycled, cleared caching, turn off all the predictive and load-faster www stuff (or think I've got it all turned off anyway). Suggestion? Thoughts? Bueller?
Brad
