Alistair Cotton
Member
Hi All
I'm hoping someone can offer some advice as to how to solve our speed problem whenever we need to do an upload. We have a modest 4mb line with Axxess as our ADSL provider. We buy 30gig of unshaped bandwidth directly from the ISP monthly and top it up if we run out.
The speed is just fine for our current needs. However, when we upload either by http or ftp the whole network slows to the point to be unusable.
I'm assuming that the crappy little DLink ADSL modem is the culprit in that it's not managing QoS sufficiently out the box. It's as if any upload takes all the "upload" bandwidth to the point that confirmation on download packets received cannot be sent out. So uploading anything basically trashes the downlink too.
Well, that's what I've come to believe is the cause of the problem.
Using FTP does exactly the same thing. However, limiting Filezilla's upload speed works wonders in fixing the problem for FTP (supporting the theory above). Filezilla obviously does nothing for http uploads from a browser
The DLink modem is also quite old now and is flaky in the wireless department. So I'm thinking that maybe replacing the modem would solve the problem, especially since I don't remember having the same network congestion problem with an older Netgear modem that was replaced with the Dlink after an altercation with lightning.
Can anyone confirm that replacing the Dlink with a better modem would solve the problem?
If so, what is the best modem available at the moment that has good QoS out the box (without fiddling) and strong to very strong wireless at a reasonable price. I'd take dependability and reliability rather than all out wireless networking speed.
I'm hoping someone can offer some advice as to how to solve our speed problem whenever we need to do an upload. We have a modest 4mb line with Axxess as our ADSL provider. We buy 30gig of unshaped bandwidth directly from the ISP monthly and top it up if we run out.
The speed is just fine for our current needs. However, when we upload either by http or ftp the whole network slows to the point to be unusable.
I'm assuming that the crappy little DLink ADSL modem is the culprit in that it's not managing QoS sufficiently out the box. It's as if any upload takes all the "upload" bandwidth to the point that confirmation on download packets received cannot be sent out. So uploading anything basically trashes the downlink too.
Well, that's what I've come to believe is the cause of the problem.
Using FTP does exactly the same thing. However, limiting Filezilla's upload speed works wonders in fixing the problem for FTP (supporting the theory above). Filezilla obviously does nothing for http uploads from a browser
The DLink modem is also quite old now and is flaky in the wireless department. So I'm thinking that maybe replacing the modem would solve the problem, especially since I don't remember having the same network congestion problem with an older Netgear modem that was replaced with the Dlink after an altercation with lightning.
Can anyone confirm that replacing the Dlink with a better modem would solve the problem?
If so, what is the best modem available at the moment that has good QoS out the box (without fiddling) and strong to very strong wireless at a reasonable price. I'd take dependability and reliability rather than all out wireless networking speed.
. In our household we mainly upgraded due to the increased upload, had so many issues with lag while gaming, wanting to upload pics to FB etc.