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Hi and welcome

The slowdown could be any or all of the things you mentioned. It's sounds like if you are getting better performance in the morning and weekends when usage for your dsl is probably typically down, your service has something to do with it.

Your RAM could have a lot to do with it also, especially if you've never upgraded in all the 9 years. If you have apps open while trying to go online, that would cause slowdown.

I would suggest going through this thread: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=106650

Particularly take a look at what you have in your start up when you boot up. You may have a lot of processes running you don't need. Whenever you load software, they like to suggest that they start up with your computer and people don't know that they don't need them to.

Also, what security are you using other than your spysweeper? If you use one of the biggies like Norton or Mcaffee, they are huge huge resource hogs and are typically not suggested by most on this board.

You can check your download and upload speeds online also. I've used this one: http://www.bandwidth.com/tools/speedTest



Good luck