Trouble with Shared Wifi

[Sheikh]

Hello..

We are three people sharing 4MB wifi. I am using alfa AWUSO36NH. The signal strength is 78%. At night I can get the speed even upto 400Kbytes/second but at day time even a webpage does not load. My system is dell inspiron 5520 i7 running windows 10.
:twisted:

 

[KillerBee]

kill your other 2 roommates?

 

[Sheikh]

They are not roommates. A third person controls the wifi and we pay for using it.

 

[KillerBee]

Well that's the worst situation to be in. Is it not possible to get your own connection?

 

[Ketchup]

Was it any different before Windows 10 or an antenna you had? What you describe is a good reason to get your own.

Also could be a case of the router using the same channel as a bunch of other routers in the area.

You can use this nifty tool to check the stats on the other wifi signals in your area:
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5476-wifiinfoview.html

If you are picking up several routers on the same channel, see if you can talk your provider into selecting a different one.

 

[John Connor]

In 802.11g, b and the 2.4 GHz portion of n, use the non-overlapping channels 1, 7 and 11.

I'm wondering if it's either a bandwidth issue or the owner is throttling the connection.

If this is a non-encrypted connection, keep in mind anything you view on your computer can be seen on someone else's computer.

 

[Zahid Iqbal]

With shared wifi, it is happened often. You have to get your wifi connection only for you. Then this problem will solve surely

 

[uclabachelor]

#firstworldproblems

 

[who?]

The person who owns the wifi may be monitoring your use and turns it off when they go to work so that you can't go to child porn sites when they are not watching.

 

[mindless1]

When the throughput is slow during the daytime, are there more users on your wifi than at night? Is it possible one of the users has set up some P2P app that is hogging the bandwidth?

Basically what you need to do since you are paying for the service, is talk to the admin of that service and ask that a QOS be implemented so you have an allocated amount of bandwidth.

That is assuming you can determine that the problem is not wifi congestion or interference from other equipment besides that used by those paying for the service. Certainly you should do a site survey and see if another wifi channel has less traffic.

 

[John Connor]

He hasn't replied in 11 days!

 

[mindless1]

He hasn't replied in 11 days!

yeah but his lazy ass didn't reply back :biggrin:

 

[John Connor]

So you waist your time?

 

[Rakehellion]

Get a 5GHz router.

 

[John Connor]

You do know 5 GHz doesn't have the range as 2.4 GHz?

 

[richarddylan202]

I think window 10 is to heavy for that kind of system or it is also effective for internet speed specially shared internet...... Where r you from Sheikh ?

 

[mindless1]

I think window 10 is to heavy for that kind of system or it is also effective for internet speed specially shared internet...... Where r you from Sheikh ?

Win10 would be fine networking on a system with 1/4th the performance of the system mentioned.

 

[JEDIYoda]

I think window 10 is to heavy for that kind of system or it is also effective for internet speed specially shared internet...... Where you from Sheikh ?

ignorance abounds....the farce is strong in this one....

 

[JeffMD]

Coming back to the original question, unfortunately you are not capable of trouble shooting half the likely issues. And the other half may be out of your control. For one, sharing just 2.4ghz on a home router is a recipe for disaster. There are a lot of things that can interfere in that frequency and compatibility mode drags the speeds down to the slowest mode being used. So if you have someone using an old laptop with 802.11b, have fun with that.

The biggest 2 questions you can't answer are of course 1) is someone else on the network doing large torrents, and 2) is the admin for what ever reason throttling connections.