Wireless Internet Slow, Why?!!!?

[Joe]

I have ComCast internet Blast, when I'm using my laptop to go on the internet, it's getting the full strength of the internet! When I use my PS3, 2006 model 80 GB Hard Drive, it's getting 20% of the strength even though it's saying it's getting around 90%. When the PS3 uses the internet, my laptop gets slow. Internet overall on all other internet electronics gets slow; is slow. Is this because of the PS3 being old. I had a PS3 slim and it got the full strength. I also had a Xbox 360 S, worked fine. When I can get rid of it, replace it with something up to date like the Xbox One, I'm going to. Thoughts on whats going on.

[Cameron]

I found out not so long ago that you provider can control the speed of your wireless. My nephew found this out from a friend that works for one of the wireless providers. He called his provider complained, and they stopped messing with his speed. One reason they do this is, to save money because the economy is bad.

[rowlfe]

Stupid is as stupid does. According to Forest Gump anyway.

Really, your problem is most likely "the party line effect". All wireless and cable broadband suffers from this. The problem is the "head end" of the cable or network access point where your ISP is, which has a single transmitter and has to share air time with everyone else. If 100 users are on the line, you get at MOST, 1% of the transmitter time to talk to YOU as an individual. The head end can only talk to ONE user at a time! The bottleneck is at your ISP or at the ISP of the server you are communicating with, OR at any point inbetween! Sorry, but this is likely circumstances beyond your control. Your connect SPEED (determined by the radio frequency used) is constant, but your THROUGHPUT (amount of data per unit time) drops with the increase of the number of users. MANY people confuse SPEED with THROUGHPUT.

[Boss]

Maybe you should contact your ISP.