I am sharing a wireless internet network with 2 friends. The internet connection is usually quite fast. However, if one of my friends start to download stuff using torrents from the web, the internet connection becomes very slow, and it take several times longer to load even the Yahoo homepage. I have talked to my friend, and she doesn't know what to do too, to prevent our connection from becoming slow when she starts to download from bit torrent. Is there anything that can be done? I am not an expert at this...maybe something to make sure the all 3 computers can have the same fast speed? or something that doesn't stop her downloading, and doesn't slows our connection as well?
2007-01-17 11:10:58 · 7 answers · asked by MyDestiny 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
hi,
all the answers are pointing the problem, burst traffic. but look into the wireless router user interface, and if you find a QOS part in its configuration, bingo, you have the solution. just set some figures, like your priority based on your IP, and you will have enaugh bandwidth when it is needed.
2007-01-21 07:02:48 · answer #1 · answered by zonouzi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Torrents will eat up your connection. If you're using cable, they can take up about 300KB/s, which can be 1/3 of your connection. If she's uploading (also known as seeding) that can tack on another 100KB/s, so it's now 400KB/s of your connection being used.
Wireless connection are about 10Mb/s, which is very slow. Using a hard wired (a real physical wire) is 100Mb/s, which is 10x faster. You figure your connection would be 800KB/s with a hard wired connection, so your connection with wireless is now about 80KB/s which is practically dial-up. Now with the extra bandwidth used from the torrent downloading/uploading, that's cut down even more.
So what should you do? Depending on how your house/apartment is setup, run a wire under the carpet so that you get a faster connection. You can also ask your friend to set a limit on his/her download speed, maybe they can set it to 100KB/s max. You might want to work out some thing so that your friend only downloads from torrents overnight, or while you're at work, ect.
2007-01-17 11:31:42 · answer #2 · answered by Mike-Q 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, your Internet connection doesn't slow down... it's running flat-out, delivering the huge amounts of data that your friend has requested. Bit torrent can deliver faster than Yahoo, so it "wins" in the battle for bandwidth, and there's no resource left for you.
Several companies make routers which perform something called "load balancing" (D-link and Cisco spring to mind), but you don't routinely find them on the shelf in your local computer store.
The best no-cost thing to do would be to ask your friend not to do massive data transfers at times when other people are trying to use the connection
2007-01-17 13:00:54 · answer #3 · answered by IanP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like your computers are networked together in a peer to peer fashion which means everybody can share everything from any of the three computers. what is happening is when your friend starts downloading torrents and you start using your computer the network gets overloaded with data. i suggest setting up one of the computers to act as a server. this will give you a client/server network which will help alot. the computer acting as the the server will perform a management service called load balancing so that all three computers will have the same connection speed. the computer that you set up as the server must be running a network operating system that is able to run a server application such as windows server 2003. there are others but i recomend windows.
2007-01-17 11:33:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no sorry. Basically you all share the internet bandwidth and the more intense the job, the more bandwidth it will use. Downloading files and streaming music on one comuter will slow down the web for other computers.
There are two things you could do.
One is to connect a server in your network, and run a bandwidth sharing computer, but this can be expensive and will take a bit of networking knowledge.
or
Two, you can contact your Internet Provider and see if there is a faster internet package available in your area.
2007-01-17 11:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get used to it, I even have the comparable subject, on my gaming computing device each thing lots at once, on my computer whilst im useing instantaneous it takes it sluggish, it consistently does that with instantaneous as long as you dont have a router for like $3000
2016-10-31 09:43:37 · answer #6 · answered by alyson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change the channel on the router
2007-01-21 17:56:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋