I am experiencing a huge 7 Meg DSL service slowdown. Since March 12, 2009, several emails will not be sent and these usually have attachments of 100 Kb or greater. These usually worked before and I have checked the PCs that are affected this. Turns out that during OE sending of these emails, it times out in locating the sending SMTP server. I then spent time checking the access speed (via www.speedtest.net and www.dslreports.com) and found that the speed tend to report:
Download : 5127Kbp/s
Upload (Speedtest): 21 Kbp/s or less
Upload (DSLReports) 5 Kbp/s or less
I am currently using a DIR-628 A2 with 1.13 firmware. I did the 1.13 firmware update prior to going to 1.13 and I turned off SecureSpot in the router. I never signed up.
Now my questions:
1) Would Securespot still be affecting my access?
2) Is Securespot included in the DIR-628 "free?"
3) Must I sign up with Securespot?
4) Router came with firmware 1.11. I checked the firmwares and noticed that 1.12 was the only version at delivered 1.12. If I went to 1.13 directly, Securespot was not installed.
5) I have also noticed that the regional firmware update (1.13 Canadian) will remove Securespot every time.