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It started yesterday afternoon. Suddenly everything went into slow motion. Videos unwatchable, complicated web pages wouldn't load. Data xfer was as slow as cold molasses.

So I deleted cache, removed a few useless apps to make more available memory thinking it was a memory issue with my kindle. Then I powered down and powered back up. No change.

Then I hit the reset button on my internet provider supplied router/wifi. No change. Then I unplugged the router/wifi, waited a minute, reconnected. No change.

My internet box is ~10 years old. I received a letter from the internet provider that they will ship, free of charge, a new router/wifi that will double my data rate. Sounds great! The router/wifi might be the problem. I get to the internet provider url to make the request but the page loads so slowly it times out and I can't make the request <yet>

I ran speedtest, it reports around 0.030mbps upload and 0.08mbps download Xfer rates for my wireless kindle and my wireless laptop.

My conclusion is I need new interrnet equipment.

Everything on the kindle seems to work fine, but the data rate is lacking.

Any ideas? Did I miss anything?

It started yesterday afternoon. Suddenly everything went into slow motion. Videos unwatchable, complicated web pages wouldn't load. Data xfer was as slow as cold molasses. So I deleted cache, removed a few useless apps to make more available memory thinking it was a memory issue with my kindle. Then I powered down and powered back up. No change. Then I hit the reset button on my internet provider supplied router/wifi. No change. Then I unplugged the router/wifi, waited a minute, reconnected. No change. My internet box is ~10 years old. I received a letter from the internet provider that they will ship, free of charge, a new router/wifi that will double my data rate. Sounds great! The router/wifi might be the problem. I get to the internet provider url to make the request but the page loads so slowly it times out and I can't make the request <yet> I ran speedtest, it reports around 0.030mbps upload and 0.08mbps download Xfer rates for my wireless kindle and my wireless laptop. My conclusion is I need new interrnet equipment. Everything on the kindle seems to work fine, but the data rate is lacking. Any ideas? Did I miss anything?

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[–] • 2 pts

I have my old desktop that I haven't used in months. Runs no longer supported Windows7 or something. I haven't used it for web browsing in many years.

Oh, the signal strength indicators on the kindle and laptop indicate a strong signal.

[–] • 2 pts

I bet that desktop would run with linux on it, unless you broke the hardware.

[–] • 0 pt

Still runs great but getting ancient. I own MSOffice with powerpoint, word, excel and have MSProject and a couple other programs on it. Worked great for my general business stuff, but haven't needed any of it for years because 98% of that work was completed long ago. Once I got the kindle, I've hardly touched the desktop. I've got my important files backed up on my desktop, laptop and thumb drive.

I'm in the market for new equipment. I've squeezed about 18 years out of the old desktop (4Gb hard drive says it all), 15 years out of the laptop, 8 years from the kindle and 10 years out of the router.

I used to run unix on a sparc workstation 20+ years ago, never tried linux.

[–] • 1 pt

What you recall of Unix is still mostly useful. It has changed and become way more user friendly if you choose one of those distros.

The laptop I use for browsing is 13 now. It runs just fine on Mint.

[–] • 1 pt

Good connection to the router but bad connection to the outside world. Do you have a VPN installed on your laptop? You could try connecting with and without it running...

[–] • 1 pt

No vpn.

[–] • 1 pt

Hmm. I'm out of suggestions. :-(