Okay so this isn't right. If my sister is using her computer with the internet and I try to use the main one on the internet it goes slower than the slowest dial up..

close all programs that are using the internet, and visit this site from whichever computer is directly hardwired to the router: www.speedtest.net choose new york and post your results!

Without the router hooked up: Download- 7504 kb/s Upload- 1256 kb/s Latency- 134 ms Distance- 50 mi

With the router (and it's going faster than it was last night): Download- 7703 kb/s Upload- 1193 kb/s Latency- 149 ms But my sister isn't using her computer with the internet right now.

It's like..off and on. It'll work really fast for a second and then stop working completely.

Those speeds are good, but the latency is pretty bad. What ISP? Must be cable, right?

What is latency? And yeah, Optimum Online.

it's the time it takes for data to be sent back and forth from your computer to a server on the net. i guess what you could try now is to hook up the router again, and while the one computer is ...

Download- 11518 kb/s Upload- 1497 kb/s Latency- 146 ms It seems like it's not any slower now..I didn't do anything different to it though.

D- 12135 U- 1655 Latency- 91

overall, it looks like you have a very solid connection with or without the router in place. what is AIM doing that is funky?