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My internet is provided by Comcast.  I am suppose to get upwards of 10Mb speeds.

When I went to http://www.speedtest.net/index.php?nojs=1 I was getting 2.5 Mb.
I did the normal things and ran repair tools such as;
CleanUp
4.52, CCleaner
SpyBot 1.6.2
AVG 8.5
Which you can all get at http://www.jamesclancy.com/Downloads.html

Nothing was found. All was ok.  Then I found 2 new free tools for Technicians.
These tools can tell the network and internet activity going on within the computer.
It's LIVE and streaming.  These are GUI's for the technician method of going to DOS and typing;
NETSTAT <NIC Card IP Addreess>.

But these tools went farther.
These associated the activity with what program is using it. I am giving away these tools on my website here.
http://www.jamesclancy.com/TechDownloads.html

Recently, while fixing a computer, a person's computer had its Microsoft Official sticker for Windows XP Home Media Center. They no longer had their manufacture's CD or did not make the CD's at time of purchase.  So since they had a code key, all I needed was the CD. I turned to Bit Torrents for that.  I had 3 installed called Bittorrents, UTorrent, and Azureus.  I UNISTALLED them after use and left it at that.  After a while my internet slowed down.

One or all of these used something called DNA to make downloads go faster.   Although I unistalled the Bit Torrent software and removed the folders and files.....this "DNA" remained behind as a separate program that is even visible in the Control Panel window under ADD/REMOVE Programs.  It is also under C:\Program Files\DNA

This 'DNA' used my computer to pass data and had about 8 active and open internet activity ports.  My internet lights blink crazy even when I was idle.  The 2 programs mentioned above pointed me to something called BTDNA.EXE. 
I deleted it, removed it from the ADD/REMOVE Programs...rebooted....and immediately did a speed test.  9.0Mb!

Who would have guessed?  So search for BTDNA.exe or DNA in your  ADD/REMOVE Programs. This makes your computer some sort of internet host for Bit Torrents even after the programs are gone.