Fibre and hogging the internet

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ronnie_94

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My friend would like to know if he gets a decent fibre line will he still experience lag when someone is completely hogging the net or does fibre do a better job than adsl did when it comes to that?

Sorry if this is a stupid question :)
 
If they choose a line speed higher than they currently have, they should be okay.. it would be beneficial if they get a package where the upload and download speed is the same..

Further, some bandwidth management would also go along way to help and most routers have some sort of option in this regard..
 
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I don't have my own fibre line, but speaking from experience..

We had a LAN party at a friends office, where they have a 20/20 fibre line. We were 4 PC's and 1 Xbox connected.
While us 4 were jamming online, the guy on his Xbox was streaming 1080p Netflix, with 0 problems.
 
What may improve the situation is the upload speed

On ADSL if someone plugs in their iphone and it starts doing a backup, the upload is swamped, and latency and downloads get affected

This should be better on fibre with the larger upload ratio compared to download

Most routers will have basic QOS where you can specify what upload/download speed you have and it should share the upload better
 
r00igev@@r said:
I've never head of Netduma. I see they claim to be able to fix bufferbloat in their pages. Why does it not work?
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Hell no it fixes bufferbloat for a few seconds then it starts freaking out (messed around with the r1 and xr500 for a whole day trying to get it sorted) It also doesn't help that they update their product like once every year so exploits and bugs stay untouched. I prefer an Asus router with merlin loaded anytime.
 
S.Claus said:
Hell no it fixes bufferbloat for a few seconds then it starts freaking out (messed around with the r1 and xr500 for a whole day trying to get it sorted) It also doesn't help that they update their product like once every year so exploits and bugs stay untouched. I prefer an Asus router with merlin loaded anytime.
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The linux kernel commits have been about 80 in the last 6 months for next-net. Yeah, so that sucks if they don'thave a rapid update!!!! But I can see the latest kernel makes a moerse difference!
 
If someone on my Fibre line starts maxing out the line I will see the ping raise quite a bit. Best to use some sort of limiting on the router side or use PFsense.
 
Wait, are you talking about contention in your property or contention on the line itself?

In your property, a faster line and a better router would probably solve most of your problems. Contention on the line itself, yes, as far as I understand, fibre handles it better.
 
Get a router where you can prioritize traffic. If he needs to prioritize browsing/work for example he can set streaming, torrents and gaming to low priority so it won't affect the rest of the traffic.
 
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