this computer is horribly slow compared to my other, and it's annoying trying to up ratio on oink and whatnot

and the test said something like "your isp shows signs of upload compression" <-- any way to get around that/assuming it's bad
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and the firmware, i read a few things on oink that said it would improve your router a ton, which would be great because mine is shitty and constantly drops connection
is it worth it/fairly easy to setup ?