Internet is really slow
I have been reading the forums about other people's internet being really slow. I've had a problem with mine for about three weeks now. I have changed the ethernet cord to see if that is the problem, still slow. I just had someone come this morning and use my ethernet cord to plug into their laptop and the speedtest yielded about 4MB/sec. My computer's activity moniter says I'm receiving data from the internet at roughly 2.2 KB/sec which is ridiculous. I read on some posts that changing the DNS servers helped as well as disabling ipv6. I'm in a school computer lab right now, so I can't try those until later, but has anyone else experienced this same problem and fixed it in another way?
Oh, if this helps, I have tried using firefox and safari, both are slow. I am plugged directly into an ethernet port, no modem.
Thanks!
iMac with Intel, Mac OS X (10.4.8)