Wifi and bandwidth

[perdomot]

I've got my home pc plugged into my wireless router with a standard cat 6 cable. I'm often downloading video with a download manager that creates multiple connections to speed up the process. When I do this and try to surf the web, it takes considerably longer for my pc to render webpages. If I have a laptop connecting wirelessly to the internet at the same time as I'm downloading videos, would the webpages still be rendered slowly like on the main pc? Thanks.

 

[drebo]

Your router has trouble keeping alive all of the NAT translations caused by the multitude of connections your "download manager" makes. Lower the number of peers your torrent clie...er, I mean "download manager"...is allowed to use and your problem will go away. Otherwise, buy a more powerful router.

 

[USAFdude02]

I agree with Drebo. Too many NAT translations on the router. The problem is that for the webpages to load they are stuck waiting for the router to process them and cause delay and usually re-transmissions of the packets.

 

[perdomot]

Drebo,
My torrent program(Bitcomet) doesn't seem to affect webpages as badly as my download manager(Orbit Download Manager).

USAFdud02,
So your saying its not the cable its the router. That's what I suspected but wasn't sure as networking is still rather new to me. Thanks.

 

[Shakeout]

If the program is trying to creat 100s of connections to speed up the download it could be flooding your router and killing it.


First thing i would do would be to look in the prefrences and see if you can put a limit to how much bandwidth or connections it tries to make.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Not to mention the fact that hes probably saturating his connection

 

[perdomot]

The download manager is doing 8 simultaneous connections to the URL. I know the bittorrent does a lot more connections than that. My original concern was whether having the router send webpages to a laptop wireless would improve page load times. Thought that having a second pc getting info off the web while the main pc is downloading cable connection would improve surfing speeds.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Your bottleneck isnt the cable from the router to your pc, or the wireless for that matter. More than likely its your ISP having a limit as to the amount of speed you can use total, all machines combined