Does uploading slow down your download speed?

[The Pentium Guy]

If so, why should it? Aren't they two seperate "lines" ?

It pisses me off, we have 768K, so my downloads go at 768/8 (roughly 90) kbps, but my uploads go at *maximum* of 15kbps.

When I upload at that speed, my downloads literally die out...

-The Pentium Guy

 

[Injury]

The problem is your hardware... not your network connection.

It's usually your harddrive can't access the information fast enough to receive and send the information.

IBTN.

 

[Aves]

That's common.

Remember that downloading/suring is really a 2-way communication. TCP requires the acknowledgement of recieved packets and the ACKs have to fight with what you're uploading. Also, with surfing you have things like DNS lookups which also have to fight for bandwidth.

You can use programs like NetLimiter to cap your upload. All you need is to make sure that you're not fully saturating the upload. I average ~40Kb/s on upload and I if I set my cap at ~38Kb/s things work just fine.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

It's usually your harddrive can't access the information fast enough to receive and send the information.

Eh? I dont even have that fast of a connection. I remember when we used to have cable it was fine, but on DSL it's just....god....FRUSTRATING.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy

It's usually your harddrive can't access the information fast enough to receive and send the information.

Eh? I dont even have that fast of a connection. I remember when we used to have cable it was fine, but on DSL it's just....god....FRUSTRATING.

Try dial up.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy

It's usually your harddrive can't access the information fast enough to receive and send the information.

Eh? I dont even have that fast of a connection. I remember when we used to have cable it was fine, but on DSL it's just....god....FRUSTRATING.

Try dial up.

Agreed.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
I remember when we used to have cable it was fine, but on DSL it's just....god....FRUSTRATING.

I would think that it would have been worse on cable since you have shared bandwidth.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Nah, in the evenings its slightly slower, but in the mornings, and late at night you get huge bandwidth bursts.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

if you use up your upload bandwith you reduce your handshaking bandwitdh for downloads.

 

[imported_Reck]

of course using all your upload will kill your downstream. as smart as you are you should know this.

generally with a 128Kbs upload you can use around 12KBs before it starts affecting your downstream.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

of course using all your upload will kill your downstream. as smart as you are you should know this.

Yeah but I wasn't expecting it to go to <1kbps (literally, less than 1kbps, sometimes the transfers say 0kbps, indicating something VERY slow).

Edit: Heh, I just noticed your registration date is my birthday .

 

[The Pentium Guy]

UGH. I'm pissed off. Restarting the modem seemed to have resolved this issue entirely, as well as lagging issues that I've been having.