Disconnecting internet

[duragezic]

Several of us also get disconnected like every hour or so. Like I'll sit at my computer and ICQ will be disconnected, but I still have internet since I can simply go back online. Sometimes the router needs a reset as well.

Would the disconnections be caused by maxing out the router's connections? I run wired ethernet too. I seen on Toms Hardware that even the best home routers only tested to 180 connections. Our little 4 yr old Linksys BEFWS4 is surely on the low end. Yet I've personally gotten torrents with about a max of 50-60 connections with no problems. Like say the router supports 64 connections, if I run 70, what happens?? Some get dropped, thus a disconnect to one of us?

In a house with 3 other people, several who constantly download useless crap on torrents, I think thats the problem. My 5MB/512k is never anywhere near that. I think way too much of our upload is being used as well as possibly the # of connections. I think a legit use of the internet like watching videos, downloading game demos or patches, and most importantly playing games takes priority over useless pirated crap. Not that talking to them does anything. I so wish I had a router with QoS. I tried the Filter Port function and put in someone's Azureus port, but it didn't seem to do anything.

 

[nweaver]

unplug them until they stop torrenting...is the internet in your name? Guess who's name will be on the paper when the RIAA's nazi lawyers come knocking.

 

[vorgusa]

if they are wirelessly connected add MAC address filtering to keep them off, also make sure that you have security on so that no one else is connecting and slowing everything down. Azureus also uses UPNP with router turning it off will slow them down and give them error messages (at least I get them if it is not configured properly). Just make sure they can not connect to the router to fix these problems

 

[duragezic]

Nope, the internet is not in my name. I kind of didn't want it in my name for that reason since they have a habit of downloading the newest popular movies (seems to be the highest target these days) and I want no part of that. I'm not gonnna act like I've never downloaded anythign copyrighted but this is downright ridiculous. uPnP is disabled already, hell one of the guys ports aren't even forwarded since he doesn't know what it even means or how to get into the router config but the rest know how to (I wonder if this slows things down though, like if there is hundreds of requests that dont know where to go and just time out?). I can't downright disconnect the internet while they are using it but I'll unplug/disable access if they are gone and I'm trying to use the internet at more than dial-up speed.


So are the router's simultaneous connections probably being maxed? Like last night I ran a speed test and though it wasn't anywhere near our rated speed, I was getting about 20k/s upload and a little under 100k/s download. Went to play some Battlefield. Pings were fairly high considering I ping 40 to this nearby Chicago server before. But even with a ping of around 100, I was getting lagged to hell. My hypothesis is that the router's connections are maxed, and for a torrent it doesn't matter much if you lose a couple of connections, but with my game... it seemed like I was getting major packet loss. Like say theres an instant where my request can't be handled due to maxed connections, so the router just throws it out and hopefully the next request gets handled by the router, cause on my screen the players were moving like 5ft at a time.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: duragezic
Nope, the internet is not in my name. I kind of didn't want it in my name for that reason since they have a habit of downloading the newest popular movies (seems to be the highest target these days) and I want no part of that. I'm not gonnna act like I've never downloaded anythign copyrighted but this is downright ridiculous. uPnP is disabled already, hell one of the guys ports aren't even forwarded since he doesn't know what it even means or how to get into the router config but the rest know how to (I wonder if this slows things down though, like if there is hundreds of requests that dont know where to go and just time out?). I can't downright disconnect the internet while they are using it but I'll unplug/disable access if they are gone and I'm trying to use the internet at more than dial-up speed.


So are the router's simultaneous connections probably being maxed? Like last night I ran a speed test and though it wasn't anywhere near our rated speed, I was getting about 20k/s upload and a little under 100k/s download. Went to play some Battlefield. Pings were fairly high considering I ping 40 to this nearby Chicago server before. But even with a ping of around 100, I was getting lagged to hell. My hypothesis is that the router's connections are maxed, and for a torrent it doesn't matter much if you lose a couple of connections, but with my game... it seemed like I was getting major packet loss. Like say theres an instant where my request can't be handled due to maxed connections, so the router just throws it out and hopefully the next request gets handled by the router, cause on my screen the players were moving like 5ft at a time.

your speedtest didn't show rated speed, but how about your speedtest+their torrents?

You are going to have letency and slowdowns as long as they are all torrenting uncontrolled. If you all get together and set some reasonable limits, such as hours for torrenting (like not during primetime gaming) and upload/download caps in their clients then it might help.