no, it's definitely not spyware, because it's affecting the 3 different computers hooked up to the network.
it's only been bad this past week.
i have restored the default settings, unplugged and rebooted the system, turned off any and all firewalls, and even did a hard reset.
it's still slow as balls.
it only speeds up for 5 minutes after i first reset the router. than it goes back to shit.