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Anyone know a lot about windows 8 and network stuff?

My PC has been great, my internet connection is super fast, but for the last month or so I've been having an issue where after about 10-12 hours or so after a restart, the internet connection speed drops suddenly to dial up speed. If I restart my PC, it's back to normal, but I'm on borrowed time just waiting for it to drop again. All of the googling I've done tell me it's my router, but it's not.. it's ONLY happening on my Windows 8.1 PC. My android phone connects super fast and never has a problem, same with my Xbox 1.

I thought it was my norton firewall, so I turned that off, no change. I removed as many startup items as I could, no change. A site said to flush my DNS cache, did that, no change. I don't recall installing any new apps at all recently, so I have no idea what could be causing it. I run my virus scan and everything, nothing helps.

Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? All I have to do is restart and I'm back to normal, but it's a pain especially if I'm in the middle of something.

You mentioned a virus scan. Did you only use one antivirus program? Try running another one to search for viruses, malware, etc. Sometimes, what one misses another will find. Also, pull up your "uninstall programs" screen, sort by date, and see what was installed around the time this problem started for you. See what kind of extensions, apps, whatever, may have been installed into your browser(s).

It could also just be all the porn you're downloading.

Dilbert did a comic about this once, back in the 90s:

Pointy Haired Boss "Hi, tech support? The Internet is slow. What causes this?"

Dogbert: "That can only be caused by all the porn you're downloading. We'll need your full name and title for our records"

*click*

Actually, after wiping and reinstalling windows about 37 times for my uncle over the last 10 years or so, I've learned to never ever look at internet porn

I'll check the installed stuff. Do sites like mycleanpc.com do anything? I was kinda afraid they would be spyware in disguise so I stay away from that kind of stuff.

I have the whole norton security suite free with my cable provider so I just use that for the virus software. I'll try another one and see what it says

My sister has been complaining about similiar issues and she also runs win 8. Maybe msoft fethed up something (again)?

Yea happens to me whenever I start up my windows 8 as well. Only for about half an hour. I simply stop turning off my computer now as I dont have time to wait haha.

It used to be worse, but I went through and cleared all the junk from my computer and made sure my start up processing was not full of wasted programs.

Not only does the overall computer run better it also helps with the weird internet issue.

I went and disabled pretty much every startup item I have and the connection has been good all day. I'll leave it running and see how it is tomorrow

I also got a wifi port checker app for my phone and found out pretty much every router in my whole condo area is set to port 6, so I changed mine to 1 so there would supposedly be less traffic or interference or something.

Tech support threads... fun.

When you say "the internet connection speed drops suddenly to dial up speed", what precisely do you mean? As in, by what metric are you judging this by?

Make sure it's an internet issue. Try unplugging your router's feed maybe, and run off-line apps on the PC. If they're slow too, it's unlikely to be internet based. It could be the hard drive getting hammered.

If Windows 8 has it, mash the F5 key when the PC boots to get into Safe Mode with Networking. See how that handles. If it's better, you'll have app issues that don't get run in Safe Mode.
Get into the command prompt, and run 'Netstat'. It lists all incoming and outgoing ports, and the addresses in use. Look up how it works, as some addresses can be ignored (like 127.0.0.1, as that's you).
Once you know what is running in Safe Mode, check again if full mode.

For Wifi, yes, you should use a different channel to everyone else. Only use 1, 6 or 11, as in the States, those are the best of the non-overlapping ranges.
If your phone app shows the spread of the channels, you'll see why.
Also, turn your Wifi router off, and run that app again. It's easier to tell what channel you want to use when you're out of the way.
If you can avoid the 2.4 GHz range altogether. Unless you're running at the newer 'n' or 'af' speeds, tell your router to only use the 'a' range, and you'll be out off the 1/6/11 fight altogether. 'a' runs up to 54 Mbps, so unless your internet link is faster than that, and if you need all that speed, cut out the 2.4 range and just use the 5GHz ranges.
The only thing with 'a' is the 5GHz frequencies have more trouble indoors, and might not get everywhere you need coverage.

Spoke too soon. Got up this morning and it was back to sucking again.

I normally get really fast download speeds, normally around 40-50 mbps, but when this happens the speed drops to around 2-3mbps. We pages take forever to load, email won’t connect to servers or it will be hit or miss and I have to keep resending till it finally goes through. Yet, my Android phone, xbox 1 and apple tv will all be working perfectly fine. It’s really only effecting my PC, so that makes me think it’s not the router at all and there’s a program or setting or something that’s causing it to bottleneck on me… no idea how to find out what’s causing it :(

Other programs seem to be running just fine, it’s just anything that uses the internet gets slow.. and the program itself doesn’t get slow, just the data transferring that’s slowed down. Everything else seems to be working normal. I’ll try netstat and safe mode.. it’s just a pain because I have no idea when it will happen.. after I restart it could be 1 hour later or 20.

Is the computer a laptop or a desktop? I assume you're connecting it wirelessly based upon the rest of the description? Have you put it in a different location or put any new electrical devices near it during operation? When you physically plug it in does it change the outcome?

Who's your ISP? Do you run bittorrent?