Does having 3or4 computers on a wireless router network slow the internet activity?

Question

Can my neighbor access my files if he gets on to my wireless router signal?

Answer 1

It depends on how you have done your connection. I will advice that is you want to have a good conenction that will not be affected by the connectivity of computers that you should put a switch in between you connection. That is connect your computers through the switch. With switch connected, your signal to every computer would be regenerated and only the level of signal or bandwidth sent from the router will be delivered to each computer without slowing down your traffic. Moreover, if your have other points for connection on your switch runned on diffrent IP or route, then you shouldn't also have the problem of bandwidth decelerating.

Good luck...

Answer 2

Yes. The more computers on a network, the slower the network will run. The connection can only handle up to 54mb of files per second, whether they come from one computer or a dozem computers. When you network computers together, they share that 54mbps, so it means that is someone else is moving a file you will have to wait your turn.

If you allow a neighbor on to your network, they will be able to see your computer (and you will be able to see theirs). However, if you do NOT have any of your folders "shared", your neighbor would not be able to open or access any of them. So you would still have some privacy.

Before youshare your connection, keep one thing in mind. Should your neighbor decide to download music, send spam e-mail, harass someone, look at child porn, etc., using your Internet connection, you could be held legally liable for their actions. Plus it would be hard to prove that they were the one who did it, since it is on YOUR network. The authorities can only track it as far as your router. Working in IT and security, i have seen this happen to too many people. So just a word of caution....

Answer 3

The answer is NOT yes. It is maybe.

Depending on your connection type you have 'x' amount of
bandwidth available.

A pc connected to the internet should be using zero bandwidth.
However many people have pc's which are set up to check for updates and etc. Or have unknown visitors/activities.

For example M$ os's are running processes which MOST people do not need. These are resource hogs and a noticeable gain in speed can be relized by stopping unneeded processes(plus security improves).

That said if your pc is not effected by huge history files and such, and speed is faster when only one pc connected, then yes your pc's are limited by the available bandwidth.

That said with a 3Mb(cable) connection I have networked three pc's playing BF2142 with no problems. A DSL (phone)connection at 1Mb would not handle the traffic.

But browsing, messaging, etc should be no problem at all for MANY pc's networked. Public libraries in some countries have several dozen PC's all using that single connection.

Gaming however IS an intensive use of bandwidth. In fact it is the most common use/ stress on a pc/connection.

PS Most servers you are accessing actually cap speeds at a predetermined maximum amount anyway...

Answer 4

My neighbor is letting me use his internet so he typed in his password on my computer. I don't know the password but it's saved on my computer. He told me that I can access his files from my computer but I really don't know how nor do I want to.

Also you'll notice that at public places like schools and such things they are running T1's and higher. The reason is because if one computer is running a cable modem at maximum speed of 10mbps and you get another computer on the same line it will turn into 5mbps because 2 computers are sharing the same line or Wi-Fi. T1's have a max of last I heard about 2GBps. But remember that there are about 100 computers using the same line, so in the end each computer (if all computers were online at the same time) would be getting only about 20mbps. And you can imagine even less if more computers on the same line.

Hope I answered your question well.

Answer 5

initially, this is relatively no longer likely which you have have been given a 100mbps information superhighway connection. probably what your ISP meant is that the LAN port on the DSL or Cable Modem is a hundred Mbps. So once you connect your on the spot router to the DSL/Cable Modem, they're going to communicate at 100Mbps. regrettably, on the different component to the DSL/Cable modem the fee is going to be greater like 2-6 Mbps. (the only exception to this is in case you have Fiberoptic/FiOS provider -- then you definately could get 50 Mbps.) So, assuming you have have been given each thing working at as quickly as: iPhones, xbox 360, and your laptop laptop, that's achieveable which you will see some slowdown in overall performance, yet on condition which you're doing something like downloading enormous media archives on all the contraptions at as quickly as. in any different case, you will not at all word the version.

Answer 6

A good tool I used to clean up and speed up my PC is CCleaner. You can download it for free here http://j.mp/UrADsc
It's a very good program and easy to use.
Hope it helps.

Answer 7

Depending of what are their doings. Sometimes slows but sometimes not. If all of them are downloading then surely will slow down, otherwise not.

Answer 8

yes and it can slow down your internet