What are the causes of a slow Internet connection?

What are the causes of a slow Internet connection?

Ethan Feerst and Dylan Stewart (Technology Therapist, Mac Guru) gives expert video advice on: What are some of the dangers to my kids associated with Internet and what can I do?; What are the causes of a slow Internet connection?; How can I protect myself from computer viruses? and more...

It's probably not a virus even though that's the first thing somebody is going to tell you, but that's probably not the case. If you are on a dial-up connection, obviously that would make your experience of loading up a webpage pretty pretty painful and your probably not watching me on dial-up right now. Your computer could be running too many processes at the same time. This will completely slow down the whole experience of bringing in and loading up all the content the website wants to put on your screen. A web host could also be getting hit with too many requests at the same time. And if that happens, that will slow down your experience of pulling up information through a particular website. If the number of requests that they're getting are overwhelming for the amount of server capacity that they really have to offer to peole out there on the world wide web.