50 meg very slow when downloading

[louisg]

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

[HowardCanning]

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.

[louisg]

Originally Posted by HowardCanning

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.

yes using bitTorrent. What would you advise i do?

[HowardCanning]

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

[louisg]

Originally Posted by HowardCanning

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

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

[AbyssUnderground]

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.

[broadbandking]

Originally Posted by louisg

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

What speed broadband do you have?

[AbyssUnderground]

Broadbandking... *Points at the title*

[broadbandking]

Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground

Broadbandking... *Points at the title*

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