If you're using uTorrent, (or a similar program), limit your bandwidth in that to about 80-80% of your total bandwidth. It sounds as though something is bottle-necking your connection
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Make sure it's not running in the background because you can close it and it will still be running. Check currently running processes for it.
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If your password is a WEP 12345, someone is stealing your connection, if your password is a one thousand characters long WPA2 poem and your WPS is activated, someone is stealing your connection. If you have a 6 year old kid as a neighbour, he's stealing your connection. If that kid lives more than a mile away from you, he's stealing your connection with a 15 bucks homemade directional wifi antenna. Even if its not the reason while your connection is crap, someone is still stealing it :-D
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NSA is probably using a back door to get into your computer and watch you play multiplayer games just in case you are a terrorist training for a mission.
Either that or Comcast just sucks. ;)
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Well they are spying on you in world of warcraft and when you play angry birds so yeah.
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Guess we should stop playing CS:GO then. I wonder if going b hard works in real life too?
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Could try the whole Steam Flush thing might help for the achievement stuff? Although the whole thing sounds weird, as if something is lagging your connection or maybe harddrive? Although I'm not that great with computers so not sure. You might want to check your resource monitor in case there is some weird spikes going on?
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Can you confirm what you have already checked ? Open ports, unknown mac adress connected, malware such as botnets etc ? If it affects steam only or when steam in on have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling steam ?
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Check google to see how to view open ports on windows ( i'm on my linux atm and don't remember how to do it on win, long live the command line ).
Close all your applications and you will be able to see any connections between you and the internet, then look for more info on each of them to see which ones are legit and which one is suspicious, like a botnet.
Not every antivirus or firewall can detect them and checking your ports manually is still the best way to go.
In the admin/config parts of your modem you will see all the other mac adresses connected to your modem, check or activate the logs to have a general view over time and not just at a given moment if possible. Check if you have 2 identical mac adresses in the same time as they are easy to spoof ( someone pretending to be you ). That's to see if someone steals your wifi.
When you scan with an antivirus, ad-aware or whatever remember that some things will be detected but not moved/removed either because of the nature of the issue or some permissions, so you might have to erase some stuff by hand ( in which case check online how to depending on what it is that cannot be removed ). Don't assume that a successful scan removes everything it detects.
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Have you tried testing a wired connection to the router to see if the issues persist? It'd narrow things down if the wireless connection alone could be pinpointed or ruled out as the most likely cause.
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I suspect someone is piggy-backing on your connection and logging your computer usage. The fact that you Torrent opens you up to all kinds of nasty stuff. Are you using protection? I'd be checking my system for trojans and key-loggers, if I were you.
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For some reason,my internet and steam client has been acting weird as fuck for the past couple days. For example,my biggest problem is whenever I play a multiplayer game,my ping will be normal,around 50-90. But then the next minute,it will shoot up to 150-300,or 700-900 latency,and I will lag,BADLY. Another thing is,for some reason,I can't access my TF2 inventory,but I spawn with the loadouts I had before,so I could still use my non-stock weapons,but not change my loadout. The last weird thing,is I've noticed my achievements in the in-game client have been wonky,like it said I have 0 out of 65537 achievements,in Garry's Mod! Videos have been buffering a little bit slower,but nothing too serious. I've tried restarting my internet and I even unplugged all of the plugs from the modem and router and replugged them in,no difference. Downloads seem to work normally. Any help will be greatly appreciated,it's only been like this for a couple days,and I believe we haven't had any changes with our ISP,I use Comcast.
EDIT: I checked on pingtest.net and my ping seems to be fine,I even went into the CMD program and checked my ping,it's fine. For some reason I'm only get connection issues when I'm playing a Multiplayer game.
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