How do I find out about the programs that are slowing down my Internet connection?

What happens when we have a good internet connection but unexpectedly the internet becomes slow and it is a real ordeal to access a page. Many times or most of the time this problem is caused by a program or application that we have installed. In the following article we will teach you how to know the programs that slow down my internet connection?

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To perform this complex operation, we need to use a tool included with Windows. And it will let us know which programs are causing our connection to slow down. We will do this via the Task Manager or the Task Manager of Windows and then we will tell you how we will use it.



The advent of technologies has allowed Internet connections to expand all over the world and even in rural places and far from the city you can count on this service. In it you can learn how to have Internet service in rural areas without coverage. And continuing with the topic, let's see what you should do to learn about programs that slow down my internet connection

How do I find out about the programs that are slowing down my Internet connection?

As we have already told you so that you can know the programs that slow down my internet connection. We will use the Task Manager and, depending on the version of Windows you have 7, 8 or 10, we will use different methods to know the consumption of the programs and applications we have installed.

To open the Task Manager we will use several methods as we have already told you and the first of these is the keyboard shortcut. We will use the following combination of Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys or which is the same as Ctrl + Shift + Esc. Now from the blue screen we will use the following key combination Ctrl + ALT + Del / Delete and then choose Task Manager.




We can also access it via the bar of the uses, for this we position ourselves with the mouse cursor on this bar, at the bottom. Then right click, this action will bring up a menu and we have to choose the Task Manager option. Another way to access the Windows task manager is through the Run tool.

To do this, we will create a key combination and press the Windows key + R. Then this will open the Run box and in it we will write the following command taskmgr. After using one of the methods described above, we will have the Task Manager on the screen and we will be able to observe all the programs running.

We can see that in this window there are several windows but we are interested in Process and here we will see the list of those programs or Apps that consume the most data. Obviously, if you are downloading something via the browser, it will show higher bandwidth consumption, but essentially here you can see which program may slow down your Internet connection.

Other factors slowing down my internet connection

But it's also important to know how to identify other factors that can cause your connection to slow down. Programs like Utorrent can slow down your internet connection as it requires a lot of bandwidth to be able to download content. Which is often in high definition, so you should keep that in mind.


There are currently other online services that can consuming a lot of your bandwidth are streaming services and online games. These views can consume both your computer and your network resources. And finally another aspect that you should check from the beginning is not being infected with a virus, this is also fatal for connections.



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But many of what could slow down your computer and therefore your internet connection could be a Windows service, such as the svchost.exe service which consumes a lot of data. And so we conclude this article where we could show you  how to know the programs that slow down my internet connection.

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