Hey ho~
I live in a shared house with other students, most of us have a desktop some of us do not.
We however had a problem that at first occurred with one person we had in this house, and I'll first get into that. This guy who is a foreign student and never really communicates with anyone was using our network through wireless on his laptop. But whenever he was online the speed of the entire house would collapse and eventually the router would even needed to be reseted in order to get some form of connection.
We asked him if he was downloading many times, he was most of the times or hardly said anything. This started happening ever since he moved in and we had this problem for about a year.
So now a couple months back we got a new router and with this one we finally managed to be able to see how much of the internet we have is being used by each person. I'll quote from the graph;
It would then list our computer names, followed by IP and MAC addresses and number of open sessions. We found out that this guy was always peaking a lot above the rest; if I was downloading lets say 2 torrents I would end up around 400-800 and he would always be around 1600 no matter what. Since we had so many disconnections through out the year the owner of the service asked our provider who told us there was a lot of download activity going on and so our connection is always overloaded because too many are made at the same time all the time.
So we eventually banned the guy from wireless for a weekend because we were all sick of it (one of us likes to play Settlers but without proper internet you can't even start the game). We changed the wireless password and gave him the new one after he started asking about it but he hasn't been online since.
Now however we had this occurring, the guy living next to me has a mini laptop from Asus and also runs Windows 7 on it. Normally he doesn't use the internet on it but decided to connect to wireless (usually he uses his desktop). Again the connection topped to 1600 in the graph and the rest of the house was slow to connect. I found it odd because he wasn't running any browsers, torrents or anything; just the desktop and I didn't see anything odd in his taskmanager either. So I started thinking what if downloading doesn't cause this, but then I am stuck on what might cause it. There are 3 computers able to connect to wireless; the foreign student's laptop, the Asus mini laptop and a Macbook but the Macbook never had a high usage and never caused problems. There are also 2 Ipads in use sometimes on the same wireless that do not cause problems. The rest connects with your good old typical internet cable and we never had problems either.
So yeh, I still want to see if it also happens if my housemate uses the cable in his mini Asus laptop, but for now I am in the blind and I was wondering if anyone here could shed a light on this weird situation. And before people start recommending new routers etc. I am not asking this because of internet drop outs, I am asking this because I find it peculiar that when a windows laptop connects on wireless it uses so much of our connection while other devices such as the Macbook use so little like it should.
We're going to run some tests with the Qos function to limit the bandwidth usage for wireless to try and prevent this problem from happening.
I however have one question about it; to how much should I limit it?
Here's a screenie;
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I added a sessions table that I had saved, my computer sticks to around 300 and maybe hits 800 when downloading multiple torrents and surfing online (with one it stick to max 500).
The 1600+ is from the foreign student's laptop.
But I have no idea what measurement the numbers stand for and so how much I should add in for the QoS.
edit;
Okay I would like some light shed on QoS as well, a roommate said he had tried that function before but it doesn't work in changing the situation. Something about it being for lan and not wireless. I actually remember him using it, it would lower my download speed but not the foreign student's laptop would still peak like always.
I live in a shared house with other students, most of us have a desktop some of us do not.
We however had a problem that at first occurred with one person we had in this house, and I'll first get into that. This guy who is a foreign student and never really communicates with anyone was using our network through wireless on his laptop. But whenever he was online the speed of the entire house would collapse and eventually the router would even needed to be reseted in order to get some form of connection.
We asked him if he was downloading many times, he was most of the times or hardly said anything. This started happening ever since he moved in and we had this problem for about a year.
So now a couple months back we got a new router and with this one we finally managed to be able to see how much of the internet we have is being used by each person. I'll quote from the graph;
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The current connection numbers built by each LAN client are displayed in the following table. A higher number of open sessions that a LAN client creates means busier internet activities he or she is engaging in |
So we eventually banned the guy from wireless for a weekend because we were all sick of it (one of us likes to play Settlers but without proper internet you can't even start the game). We changed the wireless password and gave him the new one after he started asking about it but he hasn't been online since.
Now however we had this occurring, the guy living next to me has a mini laptop from Asus and also runs Windows 7 on it. Normally he doesn't use the internet on it but decided to connect to wireless (usually he uses his desktop). Again the connection topped to 1600 in the graph and the rest of the house was slow to connect. I found it odd because he wasn't running any browsers, torrents or anything; just the desktop and I didn't see anything odd in his taskmanager either. So I started thinking what if downloading doesn't cause this, but then I am stuck on what might cause it. There are 3 computers able to connect to wireless; the foreign student's laptop, the Asus mini laptop and a Macbook but the Macbook never had a high usage and never caused problems. There are also 2 Ipads in use sometimes on the same wireless that do not cause problems. The rest connects with your good old typical internet cable and we never had problems either.
So yeh, I still want to see if it also happens if my housemate uses the cable in his mini Asus laptop, but for now I am in the blind and I was wondering if anyone here could shed a light on this weird situation. And before people start recommending new routers etc. I am not asking this because of internet drop outs, I am asking this because I find it peculiar that when a windows laptop connects on wireless it uses so much of our connection while other devices such as the Macbook use so little like it should.
We're going to run some tests with the Qos function to limit the bandwidth usage for wireless to try and prevent this problem from happening.
I however have one question about it; to how much should I limit it?
Here's a screenie;
I added a sessions table that I had saved, my computer sticks to around 300 and maybe hits 800 when downloading multiple torrents and surfing online (with one it stick to max 500).
The 1600+ is from the foreign student's laptop.
But I have no idea what measurement the numbers stand for and so how much I should add in for the QoS.
edit;
Okay I would like some light shed on QoS as well, a roommate said he had tried that function before but it doesn't work in changing the situation. Something about it being for lan and not wireless. I actually remember him using it, it would lower my download speed but not the foreign student's laptop would still peak like always.