How come my internet connection is so slow all of a sudden?

[Anthony Friske]

I was just about to ask the same thing. Everything was running fast and smooth today than around the later afternoon and then suddenly I've been getting major lag in games and takes almost a minute to load pages. I thought it was my roommates fault cause they could have been downloading movies or something but no one was using any major bandwidth. Plus what is funny is that I called a restaurant earlier to order some food and they were complaining about slow computers too. Seems like there is either some high server traffic or they could be doing some possible maintenance.