tech support needed

[fahye]

What the hell. For some reason my laptop is cancelling all downloads as soon as they reach a certain (tiny) amount. YouTube vidoes aren't loading above a crawl. I thought it was my home 'net connection, but now I'm at uni and the same thing is happening - a download speed might start at 40kb/s, but it'll be down to 9kb/s within ten seconds.

I'm not even trying to do anything ILLEGAL. I'm trying to access a .pdf of an article that I need for an assignment, and both Firefox and IE refuse to let anything through. They'll download about 3MB, tell me that the download is complete, and then leave me with a fragment of a file that's no good at all.

Does anyone have ANY idea why this might be happening? Have I accidentally added an extra layer of mortar to my firewall? HELP.

Comments

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about that, but I HAVE just found out who (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925966/) is my friend Jon's next-door neighbor!

And I am really jealous!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I AM ALSO JEALOUS. Dude, you could totally fabricate some reason to go over there and fake a blackout and KNOCK INNOCENTLY ON THE DOOR and ask if his power is out too.

JOOOOOOOOOSH.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Like, if I'm ever in Pasadena, for sure!

[silveraspen]

Maybe do a spyware and virus scan, to see if there's something else utilizing the resources in question?