Watching sonys unvail was horrible till I shut down my pcs

[alanwest09872]

Ok Sorry for the horrible title. I just couldnt think what to write to describe the problem i am having. Ok I tried to watch sonys unvieling the ps4 on the ps3. The video was horrible. It kept disconnecting and I would go several minutes before it would reconnect. I stopped watching it. I came down stairs, did some dishes then turned off all internet connected devices in my house except the ps3. Then everything worked fine. I should mention that no one was using any of the internet connected devices at the time. So no other bandwith was being activly used.

So my question is what the hell is going on. Why did the video all of a sudden improve when I shut down the other internet connected devices. where they using up bandwith even though no one was using them at the time?

What exactly happen.

 

[JackMDS]

There is so much ""overwhelming"" info about your Internet connection as well as other Network devices and its configuration that it is very hard to provide any speculation.

 

[imagoon]

Was it wireless? Were the PC's doing anything, downloading, torrenting etc?

We really can't tell you without more information.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

You're not running Bitcoin client are you?

 

[alanwest09872]

my appologies. The ps3 is connected to a router/modem with 4 ethernet ports out. (I didnt mean for this first sentence to come off rude if it does I appoligies) The service we have is time warner cable. we have a 3.6MBps download and a 5Mbps upload speed.

The modem/router has 4 ethernet outs. 2 are connected to pc's. 1 to a ps3 the other the dvr system.

Like I said in the first post the only connection that was active was the ps3. No bandwidth was being used by the other device.

I should also mention we have a few wireless devices.
2 tablets 1 360 1 wii u.

Again thou none of them where active during the broadcast. I also have a password on the wireless internet. So unotherised ussage would have been impossible.

If you need more info please let me know

 

[Fardringle]

One or more of your computers were using the Internet, even though nobody was sitting there actively using it. P2P file sharing is the most likely culprit.

 

[alanwest09872]

What exactly is p2p file sharing.

is that like bearshare. I used that like 10 years ago. But havent had it installed on either one of my pcs since then.

 

[JackMDS]

While sites that make a living of Video streaming (like Hulu, Netflix, Youtube) are very knowledgeable about the service that they provide, many podcaster and other service provider do not have very sophisticate capacity to control the stream under iffy situations.

TWC services are Not first class for heavy streaming because they use "heavy hand" on the throttling "Spigot" when there is long term stream and other download.

Add to it some idle activity on your network and PS3 etc.

So while each quirkiness on its own Not a big deal a none planned combination can cause such Behavior and it can come ago any time.

 

[Cabletek]

The service we have is time warner cable. we have a 3.6MBps download and a 5Mbps upload speed.

While I do not work for Time Warner but their implementation of cable internet is not a whole lot different than the rest of the world, the download should be faster than the upload.

Step one run a speed test directly off the modem you WILL need to reboot it to lock a computer to it, it will be looking for the router until you do.

If the speed doe snot change, schedule service call. If the speed does change, consider the options you have,

1. reset and reconfigure your rotuer, hoping you missed something before.

2. replace the router.

I work for comcast, probably 95% of the calls where I see upload faster than the download ends up being the fault of the router. Sometimes suvs left it on PPPOE for the previous DSL provider they had, sometimes they were testing out things they forgot and once they undid them it worked other times they were having interference with wireless phones, etc.. but its almost always been where it should be straight out of the modem.

The few times it has not it was a issue with the modems provisioning somehow.

 

[alanwest09872]

While I do not work for Time Warner but their implementation of cable internet is not a whole lot different than the rest of the world, the download should be faster than the upload.

Step one run a speed test directly off the modem you WILL need to reboot it to lock a computer to it, it will be looking for the router until you do.

If the speed doe snot change, schedule service call. If the speed does change, consider the options you have,

1. reset and reconfigure your rotuer, hoping you missed something before.

2. replace the router.

I work for comcast, probably 95% of the calls where I see upload faster than the download ends up being the fault of the router. Sometimes suvs left it on PPPOE for the previous DSL provider they had, sometimes they were testing out things they forgot and once they undid them it worked other times they were having interference with wireless phones, etc.. but its almost always been where it should be straight out of the modem.

The few times it has not it was a issue with the modems provisioning somehow.

I may have written my speeds down incorrectly.
I thought if you wrote MB that is megabyte and if you write Mb that is megabit sorry i messed that up.
When I wrote "3.6MBps download and a 5Mbps upload speed" I meant to as 36mbps and 5mbps upload. See I thought that the capital B meant it was 10x faster then the lowercase b. I read it such a long time ago and might have missenturped or forgot the actual. Either way thats what I meant