If you’re seeing slowdowns in your home, it’s important to know how your bandwidth is being used. Here at Komando, one of our employees needs a 150Mbps connection at his home to support him, his roommates and their mass of always-on gadgets. However, try streaming video on two gadgets, or have someone downloading a file on the computer at the same time, and see how quickly the bandwidth runs out. A measly 3 megabit-per-second Internet connection has enough bandwidth to stream an HD video from Netflix. In the same way, the more gadgets or people you have in your home, the more bandwidth you need. The bigger the river, the more ships can carry cargo at once. If you think of your Internet connection like a river, the bandwidth is how deep and wide that river is. It has to do with a term called “bandwidth,” which is how much data your Internet connection can bring into your home at once. However, your ISP isn’t the only possible culprit, and today we’re going to talk about something in your own home that could be the problem.
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We've told you in the past how to tell if you’re getting the Internet speed you paid for, and whether or not your Internet service provider is at fault. Watching it inch along can be almost painful, especially when you’re paying a bundle of money for it every month. We have all sat staring at our computer wondering why the Internet is running so slow.