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Created 16th September 2009 @ 16:38
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Hey guys,
I recently got a connection from BT saying that the speeds I’d roughly get would be around 8-10mbps. Doing a speedcheck I get around 5Mb out of a possible 6.5Mb.
This isn’t the problem though. My ping is really easily affected even when the bandwith isn’t exactly the lowest. As soon as I start just 1 download, my ping goes from 20-400. This wouldn’t be a problem normally. But I live with 7 other people. At any one time, someone will be downloading something…
I was wondering if this is normal, or if there are any fixes ect. I’m used to a fairly decent connection with gaming packets prioritised.
You could ask your housemates to install Netlimiter or something, and limit their bandwidth to one seventh of your connection speed.
I would call the ISP and ask them: ‘sup?
and if they don’t fix it call for /b/lackup
otherwise, klu’s idea seems like a good one, but this might annoy your mates? :/
yep if the download consumes most of the bandwidth
same here but its pretty normal
I would call the ISP and ask them: ‘sup?
and if they don’t fix it call for /b/lackupotherwise, klu’s idea seems like a good one, but this might annoy your mates? :/
depends if they are pricks or not, if the ‘net bill is split 7 ways they can hardly complain about being limited to one seventh of the bandwidth.
I’m gonna cry if you don’t fix it. And then slap you. And then probably cry a bit more.
If by “downloading” you mean “torrents”, then this is all normal.
If everyone’s running windows I suggest you try a program named cFosspeed. It’s not a bandwidth limiter, but rather a traffic shaper. In theory, it should let everyone download using the entire connection and let you game with, say, only 5-25 ping increase. Some people I know say it’s the best thing since the internet, for others (myself included) it does absolutely nothing. Sure the worst you can do is try.
If you got a router for a tenner could be the problem ..
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