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Need help regarding internet connection
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Posted by: jhawks
Since this is about the internet connection and speed, I thought it would go here.
My brother and I share our internet through connecting to a single router. Our internet speed is around 1.5 MB (According to a Speedtest found on the internet for my region New Zealand)
Now, this is the problem I'm having. Everytime my brother downloads, I can't play any online games as it would lag insanely.
The thing is, before, our speed was much, much lower than 1.5 MB. During this time, everytime he downloaded, I couldn't play online games. When it changed to our current speed of 1.5 MB, we could both download and play at the same time. But sooner or later, I started to lag and now back to square one.
I was wondering if there is a way out of this?
According to the speedtest, when both of us are not doing anything on our computer, our speed is around 1.5 MB. Sometimes reaching to 1.6 MB. But when he downloads, it goes all the way down to 250kb, or .25MB.
Now this has caused a lot of arguing amongst ourselves because he constantly downloads. Not 24/7, but enough to make you go crazy. Even all my friends started to dislike him because he kept lagging our Starcraft game.
Please tell me there is a way out of this or is this just how sharing an connection work?
Posted by: rabidgecko
i dunno if this would help, but you could try, if you have an extra router lying around, put your connection into the first router, take an ethernet cord from the first router and connect it to the second router, and then let your brother use another ethernet cable to connect to the second router
the idea im getting at is maybe if your connection is first in line, and his is further down the 'chain' or 'road' or w.e, maybe it will be his connection that suffers.
but that is just a guess, because its the only crazy idea i have right now, and i dont even know if it will work :P
you should get some proper feedback soon enough from the gurus that patrol these boards 
Posted by: jhawks
That rather, kind makes sense but doubt it will work. Plus I don't have a spare router lying around XD
Thanks for trying though.
Hopefully I can solve this problem as it has been driving me crazy for around 4 years.
Posted by: rabidgecko
what kinda router do you have?
oh and also, what program is your brother using to download stuff?
ouch 4 years? that must suck, man i feel for ya :P
Posted by: jhawks
Router router..... DSLink 300 i think.
He uses Azureus.
Posted by: rabidgecko
umm i dont know azureus that well, but I know for utorrent you can limit the amount of bandwidth that utorrent is allowed to use. you may want to check into that program, utorrent, it is a great program, not as much of a resource hog as i found azureus to be.
but if he likes azureus check the settings for that, there may be some way to limit the amount of bandwidth it can take up. I am not familiar with dlink as much, since i only got a second dlink router not too recently so I dont know all the nifty things it can do, but maybe you can check the settings on that too for limiting bandwidth, or giving one ip priority over another
Posted by: jhawks
I'll try asking my brother that. Hopefully he will try and help me with this problem -_-
Thanks again.
If anyone else have any other suggestions please post!
Posted by: rabidgecko
let me know how that goes ok?
and i just checked utorrent again, you can set definite limits to both upload and download speeds, and you can even set a schedule so that, at times when you know for sure that you will not be needing the full speed on your connection, utorrent will allow max possible downloads, but at times you will be using your connection, utorrent, as set by the schedule, will automatically reduce bandwidth usage to what you set it as.
i'll download azureus and check to see if I can find any similar settings on that program
edit: yup on azureus if you go to tools and then options, go to the Transfer tab, and you can set limits to total upload and download speeds, which should help you out with your problem.
however, with azureus i dont see any scheduler, so everytime you arent using your connection and your brother wants be able to use more bandwidth he will have to constantly go in and change the up and download settings..... but maybe after 4 years of that he'd deserve it eh? heehee
let me know if that helps a bit
Posted by: jhawks
Hmmm.....
Well, recently I remembered that my brother sets his Upload to a max of 3 kb/ps and his Download to unlimited. Does that mean that if his Download was set to a specified number, would that help with my lag problem?
Posted by: rabidgecko
yes, wow setting his upload to 3 kbps? he might as well turn it off. i am not sure how low he should set his download to, um, you can try setting downloads to maybe 50 kbps first, and keep moving it lower until your lag problem is fixed.
You might have to limit it to something very low however to completely minimize the effects of the lag. I am not entirely sure how low you should set it. just play around with the download limit until it solves your problem... if it solves it at all that is.
If it doesn't work, then I am not sure what else you could try, but there must be something that can be done. Good luck with it.
Posted by: jhawks
OK, I will try limiting the download thing on his Azureus.
If it doesn't work and I still lag that's fine.
You've been a great help man, really appreciate it, thanks ^^
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