when i am on the internet and another member of my family gets on, the speed seems to slow significantly. I have cable internet and a netgear wireless n router so i dont see what the problem is.
2007-06-30 14:39:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
It isn't a "problem". It's the way networks work.
Think of your network connection to the internet as a water line to your home. When you are the only person home and turn on the shower you get all the available water volume (think data volume) and all the available water pressure (think bandwidth).
If your (sister, brother, room mate, etc) comes over and starts watering the lawn while you are in the shower, you notice the water pressure and volume decrease, or you may not if there is ample water pressure and volume to your home. If enough people start using the water in and around your home you'll feel the difference in water pressure in the shower.
This same holds true for your internet connection. When it's just you, the cable modem gives you all of the available data volume and bandwidth exclusively to your system. When someone else logs in and starts using the internet also, it becomes a shared resource. If a third person logs into a 3rd computer the stream gets split in 3 directions and so on.
2007-06-30 14:55:14 · answer #1 · answered by Jag 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of like a conference call, the signal gets weaker and it is harder to hear once more people get on. The speed of an internet connection is the connection into the home or business, the more people that are on it, the less quick each person's will be.
2007-06-30 21:47:26 · answer #2 · answered by Michelle H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your problem is speed as say if you have a net connection of 2MB that will be your maximum peak rate so say if you are on msn messenger that connection to the net comes out your 2MB so just for example say your net is now 1.5MB then you decide to open a web page that also comes out of your 2MB connection
now if someone else in the house and is on the net at the same time you would both be sharing the same 2 MB and if you both are doing quite a bit on the net it makes your speed slow as you are using all 2MB making you have to wait for pages to load
so getting a faster connection would solve this problem
hope i could help
2007-06-30 21:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you are using any P2P programs they WILL slow the whole network down. if you stop using the P2P programs the speed will go back normal. If that's not the case, maybe you should contact Netgear OR your internet service provider.
2007-06-30 21:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by Michael Y 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really depends. if the other users are just doing basic web surfing which hardly uses any bandwidth, you really shouldn't notice any slower speeds. but if the other person(s) is doing P2P (like someone mentioned above), doing heavy downloading, online gaming, where alot of the bandwidth is being used, then you will definitely experience slower speeds.
bottom line, if the other users are just doing basic web surfing and you get slower speeds, i would call tech support and tell them. tech support for either your router or your ISP. but if it's due to gaming, downloading, etc, that is normal.
2007-06-30 21:57:56 · answer #5 · answered by tom l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the problem is that you have doubled the demand on the connection. slowing down as demand goes up is normal.
2007-06-30 21:46:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
call tech supprot and report this.
could be a problem at the hub or site.
2007-06-30 21:46:56 · answer #7 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋