Why is my Internet so good?

[Hawmaws]

Complete techophobe here.

I live in a village that has pretty rubbish internet pipeage - the best I have ever seen on a test is about 2.5 "whatever they ares".

But, my lad runs COD on-line no problems on his PS3, at the same time as his sister plays on-line games/watches iPlayer on the PC. Also the BTvison film on demand thing works perfectly.

Why does this all work so well given I live in the boondocks? Is there more to it than Internet speed?

Edited by Hawmaws on Monday 26th April 10:56

[PetrolTed]

2.5 ain't so bad.

[cazzer]

Contention Ratio.

And the number of other people who are locally connected.

[okgo]

Wait till your son or daughter start torrenting films. Then you'll find out the true meaning of pain.

My fking flatmate insists on leaving his laptop downloading entire series of programs. Worst thing is they are on Sky all day long anyway!

[The_Jackal]

Send him a fake letter from ACS:Law, that will stop him being a tt to his flatmates lol

[RobCrezz]

okgo said:

Wait till your son or daughter start torrenting films. Then you'll find out the true meaning of pain.

My fking flatmate insists on leaving his laptop downloading entire series of programs. Worst thing is they are on Sky all day long anyway!

Get a router that can limit bandwidth, so you can still have 50% free for your self.

[andycambo]

okgo said:

Wait till your son or daughter start torrenting films. Then you'll find out the true meaning of pain.

My fking flatmate insists on leaving his laptop downloading entire series of programs. Worst thing is they are on Sky all day long anyway!

My flatmate does the same. If he's on his Xbox (wireless connection) then I can't even stream videos or play online games as it just lags.

I keep thinking that he has limited my bandwith (because I'm on a wired connection and he's wireless) but he can't do this because we only have a Sky router... bloody annoying though!

[Man-At-Arms]

RobCrezz said:

okgo said:

Wait till your son or daughter start torrenting films. Then you'll find out the true meaning of pain.

My fking flatmate insists on leaving his laptop downloading entire series of programs. Worst thing is they are on Sky all day long anyway!

Get a router that can limit bandwidth, so you can still have 50% free for your self.

just for Quality of Service in the router settings

[Silent1]

okgo said:

Wait till your son or daughter start torrenting films. Then you'll find out the true meaning of pain.

My fking flatmate insists on leaving his laptop downloading entire series of programs. Worst thing is they are on Sky all day long anyway!

Google QOS

[dtmpower]

Man-At-Arms said:

RobCrezz said:

okgo said:

Wait till your son or daughter start torrenting films. Then you'll find out the true meaning of pain.

My fking flatmate insists on leaving his laptop downloading entire series of programs. Worst thing is they are on Sky all day long anyway!

Get a router that can limit bandwidth, so you can still have 50% free for your self.

just for Quality of Service in the router settings

Is your flat mate using Wifi or Wired connection - maybe you could put a 2nd Access Point or Managed Switch to control QoS.

[tegwin]

Or block the housemates access to the P2P Ports.. (google for the port numbers!)

[bigdods]

Simple solution. Get everyone using wireless . Config router to allow only 802.11b - max 11meg , actual througput about 3 meg (IME).

You hard cable yourself to the router at full speed

Job done.

This is how I limit my kids bandwith

[dtmpower]

bigdods said:

Simple solution. Get everyone using wireless . Config router to allow only 802.11b - max 11meg , actual througput about 3 meg (IME).

You hard cable yourself to the router at full speed

Job done.

This is how I limit my kids bandwidth

That's a neat solution !

[andycambo]

dtmpower said:

bigdods said:

Simple solution. Get everyone using wireless . Config router to allow only 802.11b - max 11meg , actual througput about 3 meg (IME).

You hard cable yourself to the router at full speed

Job done.

This is how I limit my kids bandwidth

That's a neat solution !

I've changes the router settings to the 802.11b. Hopefully this will sort out the problems of bandwith over-use!

I honestly thought that having a wired connection was always better than a wireless, but it doesn't seem to be in my place!

Thanks for the info.