After having my isp (cox) check out my internet connection from their end, even thinking that perhaps my hardware was having problems, I narrowed the extremely slow internet connection to McAfee's firewall.

With the firewall active speedtest.net cannot even complete the test.  With it off the test flies and everything is the way it should be.

This problem surfaced a couple of weeks ago, but only now have I finally been able to trace the problem to McAfee.

A friend suggested I scrap McAfee, but I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this problem and if there is a solution?

Thanks.