50 meg very slow when downloading
 

Hi,

There a 3 users in the house. I have a d-link dir 615 router. When one person is downloading it seems to make everyone else suffer when browsing the web.

Is there anything i can do in the router settings to allow each pc have so much bandwidth each.

Any help would be great thanks

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

When you say downloading, what software/protocol are they using? Downloading from an HTTP/FTP source with a single connection shouldn't knacker the internet connection that much, but if you're using something like BitTorrent which initialises lots and lots of simultaneous connections, that's what slows it down.

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

yes using bitTorrent. What would you advise i do?

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

Either tell them that they're annoying everyone else in the house with their downloading habits and to cut it out during the day, or failing that have a look in the router's settings and see if there any options for bandwidth allocation, throttling, quality of service etc. A quick google seems to suggest you can prioritise traffic in the "Advanced > QOS" menu so I guess just set their computer's IP address to the lowest priority ;)

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

thanks, dont really know what to put in the settings though. can anyone else advise?

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

They're saturating the upstream by the sound of it, so tell them to limit it to 50KB/s and that should sort it out.

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

What speed broadband do you have?

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

Broadbandking... *Points at the title*

Re: 50 meg very slow when downloading
 

Dammit got up too early this morning *walks away looking stupid*