Help with ping and torrents

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Hi Guys

Need some help here!! My brother , he is permanently downloading torrents and it affects my ping while I play online!!

Is there anyway we can split the line so it wont affect my ping?

Thanks
 
Most torrent software have an option to limit the bandwidth used to download/upload torrents. There is usually also an option to lower the priority of torrent data over the network.
 
Just ask him to limit his torrents. I stop torrents completely whenever other people in the house want to game. It's just common decency. I can torrent while everyone else sleeps.
 
oldhat said:
Most torrent software have an option to limit the bandwidth used to download/upload torrents. There is usually also an option to lower the priority of torrent data over the network.
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Did try that but I don't know what goes one
 
Qwikslver said:
Just ask him to limit his torrents. I stop torrents completely whenever other people in the house want to game. It's just common decency. I can torrent while everyone else sleeps.
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Ye well he doesn't like to stop his torrents :( :P
 
You can enable QoS on the ADSL router, although that requires you to be quite tech savvy, and you could potentially mess it up for everyone. Like a programmer once said: "If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"
 
If you have access to the router and you know your stuff, then you can always block ALL internet access for your brother's IP, and just allow like TCP port 80 & 443 for accessing websites ;)

Otherwise, tell your brother to stop using Torrents and to use news servers instead. They are way more efficient in terms of bandwidth than torrents, because you don't upload any content when downloading from news servers. You can also fully automate series downloading with news servers with the use of Sick Beard & SABnzbd+.
 
agentrfr said:
You can enable QoS on the ADSL router, although that requires you to be quite tech savvy, and you could potentially mess it up for everyone. Like a programmer once said: "If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"
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I've heard of it but what does it do?
 
Pada said:
If you have access to the router and you know your stuff, then you can always block ALL internet access for your brother's IP, and just allow like TCP port 80 & 443 for accessing websites ;)

Otherwise, tell your brother to stop using Torrents and to use news servers instead. They are way more efficient in terms of bandwidth than torrents, because you don't upload any content when downloading from news servers. You can also fully automate series downloading with news servers with the use of Sick Beard & SABnzbd+.
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How do u connect to a news server? Sorry not into all this torrent stuff?
 
oliverwww said:
He's using vuze, we have a 3mb and it's downloading at 200kbs on vuze
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Set User Proficiency Mode to Intermediate, then change 'kB/s global max. download speed' to 100 & see it it helps. You can also change 'kB/s global max. upload speed' to 50 to limit upload bandwidth usage.
 
50kB/s upload speed is too much if you want a decent speed on a 3Mbps ADSL connection, because it only has like 60kB/s upload (max) speed. You'll have to limit the upload speed to like 25kB/s or so.
 
Pada said:
50kB/s upload speed is too much if you want a decent speed on a 3Mbps ADSL connection, because it only has like 60kB/s upload (max) speed. You'll have to limit the upload speed to like 25kB/s or so.
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Thanks for clearing that up, I am unfamiliar with 3Mbps ADSL...
 
oldhat said:
Thanks for clearing that up, I am unfamiliar with 3Mbps ADSL...
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You can always log in on your ADSL modem's webpage and look for the ADSL stats page.

I think you'll be connecting at a rate of 3072kbps down and 512kbps up, where a 4Mbps ADSL connection will give you 4092kbps down and 512kbps up.

Typically your actual data throughput over ADSL would only be about 85%-91% of the speed at which your ADSL connects. This is mostly due to TCP/IP and Application protocol overheads.
This means that when your ADSL modem is connected at 3072kbps to the DSLAM, your actual download speed would be roughly 2600 kbps (aka 325kB/s).
You can do the same calculation with the upload speed.
 
Pada said:
You can always log in on your ADSL modem's webpage and look for the ADSL stats page.

I think you'll be connecting at a rate of 3072kbps down and 512kbps up, where a 4Mbps ADSL connection will give you 4092kbps down and 512kbps up.

Typically your actual data throughput over ADSL would only be about 85%-91% of the speed at which your ADSL connects. This is mostly due to TCP/IP and Application protocol overheads.
This means that when your ADSL modem is connected at 3072kbps to the DSLAM, your actual download speed would be roughly 2600 kbps (aka 325kB/s).
You can do the same calculation with the upload speed.
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Yes, our attenuation doesn't support 4mb
 
oldhat said:
Set User Proficiency Mode to Intermediate, then change 'kB/s global max. download speed' to 100 & see it it helps. You can also change 'kB/s global max. upload speed' to 50 to limit upload bandwidth usage.
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I will try!! Thank u
 
oliverwww said:
Yes, our attenuation doesn't support 4mb
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Could you perhaps post your statistics here?

I've seen people getting 4Mbps on like 50dB downstream attenuation - but this depends on the ADSL modem and a couple of other things that aren't in your control.
 
Alright no problemo!!!

Here are the stats!!! We didnt have internet for 3 months, but before and were running fine at 6mb , yes 6mb , so we changed over to mweb and soon they fixed the line !!! After that our attenuation has dropped dramatically and we cant even get 4 mb, stats have improved today due to the fact that I connected it straight to the black cord from the tele pole

Stats:
--- DSL Information ---
DSL Driver Version: AnnexA version - A2pB023k.d21d
DSL VPI/VCI: 8/35
DSL Status: Showtime
DSL Mode: G.DMT
DSL Channel:
DSL Upstream Rate: 512 Kbps
DSL Downstream Rate: 3264 Kbps

Down up
DSL Noise Margin: 7.1 dB 10.0 dB
DSL Attenuation: 60.0 dB 31.5 dB
DSL Transmit Power: 18.5 dBm 12.2 dBm
Regards
 
Mybroadband speedtest!! Usually get 38ms ping

Download Speed: 2780 kbps (347.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 433 kbps (54.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 25 ms
 
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