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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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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.

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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.

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I'd need a quickie refresher before diving back into unix. It would come back to me quickly. Glad to hear unix is more user friendly! Lol! It wasn't too bad back in my day but some of the commands as I remember were a bit cryptic. The last big thrill of the software side of my career was learning perl in a unix environment around 2000. Cool language. Very handy for cumbersome textual tasks. Wished it was around and I knew about it years earlier when I had a few projects that forced me to write some text processing in C and C++ that would have been effortless in perl.

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You would have 0 issues in a modern linux environment.

If you want something that looks and drives sort of like windows. Pick up either Mint or Manjaro. (different distros, diff package managers so on so forth, pretty much same results and same application availability)