- Jan 31, 2010
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Recently I switched from twc to a local isp that is offering fiber-to-the-home. My connection went from 30/5 to 100/20. I had a dlink 4500 router and what i noticed now is everytime i download anything that uses 100 percent of my download that it basically shuts down everything else on my network. I can't view any websites. I start losing connection to the irc servers I'm connected too. I will even lose connection to skype sometimes. On the dlink 4500 i had QoS setup to help with this but it didn't seem to help at all. I thought something was wrong with the router so I bought a new asus RT-N66U router. I tried with and without QoS setup on the new router and still the same thing happened.
Last night I did a test by moving some large files from one wired pc to another wired pc over the network. It was using 120 MB/s but it didn't affect my ability to view websites and i didn't lose connection to anything during this time. Two extra things to be noted is that when this problem will happen to pc on the network. Last thing is that this never happened with my twc connection even when it got completely saturated.
Last night I did a test by moving some large files from one wired pc to another wired pc over the network. It was using 120 MB/s but it didn't affect my ability to view websites and i didn't lose connection to anything during this time. Two extra things to be noted is that when this problem will happen to pc on the network. Last thing is that this never happened with my twc connection even when it got completely saturated.