internet speed

Before you can be sure (even that may not be fully accurate).

Depending on where you used to be and where you are now - if the ISP is the same, the demographic of the local population will have changed. Therefore you might have been living in an area with less net users than you do now. There may be more children where you live now, therefore your 'share' of the available bandwidth may be affected at different times of the day.

Personally, my bandwidth comes crashing down around 16.30 local time when all the kids come out of school. It remains low until around 00.30 when all but the die-hards have drifted off to sleep.

http://www.speedtest.net would be a good site to try. It allows you to run a test based on your local vicinity, but it also keeps track of your results for about 3 or 4 days in a chunk, so you can study any trends in your own specific results.

You might be surprised by what you find.

Good luck.

Also, if the connection you speak of now is a brand new connection - there has not been a Big Pond internet connection within that property before your arrival - most ISP companies have a 'bedding-in' period for a new connection.

They tend to monitor your usage over the first couple of weeks to find out what your typical usage is, what file transfer methods you favour using, your average times of usage, that sort of thing.

After that 'bedding-in' period your download speeds should improve and return to what you experienced before. :)