1. Your ISP.
You ISP might have a slower (or higher) download rate compared to its upload rate. If this is the case, then you might need to contact your ISP yourself to remedy this. Your ISP (or more accurately, you internet subscription plan) has a limit, which also limits the speed of your download.

2. Bandwidth use.
The way you use your bandwidth also affects download speed. For example, having multiple downloads makes each download slower, as well as running bandwidth dependent programs like P2P or online games or video and audio streaming along with your download will also make everything slower.

Malwares are everywhere, but it’s good news that more people are more vigilant these days and therefore the rate og clicks to malicious sites are down:

The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.

“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”

So be very careful when clicking on unknown sites…

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