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As many of you know, I have had issues with my housemates who desire to have some sort of Nazi state applied to my internet connection by limiting my ports and basically being huge walking phalluses, but it has been apparent recently that they may well be restricting my bandwith dynamically (I suppose this hypothesis by the fact I get fuck all connection speeds during the peak times where they both uses their laptops online and that when they do go to bed and I try and connect to a game it normally boots me off within 2 minutes but i can reconnect and then play as if a switch is being reset to resubscribe me to my bandwith alottment, if you follow my slightly stoned trail of thought!).
Anyway, is there anyway of being certain they are restricting my bandwith?
Serves yaself right for getting arnie to spread lies about me 🙂
anyhoos.. Check the back gardens and under patio.. I reckon your living with Fred and rose west clones!
there fucked in the skull if you ask me.. It rages me when you even mention them.. grrr!!
You can I set bandwidth throttling on some routers.. if it has the option to do so obviously.. dont suppose you know what make it is?
Do yourself a favour and cut the feckin phone line, yes i know it’s your phone as well but it will seriously fuck their day up as well.
If you’re on at peak times in some areas the connection will get shitty anyway, but if they’re both using the connection at those times and say they’re downloading something, then they will automatically get the bandwidth priority. At the same token, when they piss off to bed, so are the chances other peak users do too, hence the connection has some bandwidth left for you 😛 IMO get a download manager on the go and spend a week downloading huge files just before they get back – it should shift the bandwidth priority to you, OFC then you can’t suddenly play a game or pause the file because you will lose priority, but it should piss them off enough to warrant negotiations 😛 The beauty of using a download manager would mean if they reset the box to improve the connection, it will auto-resume the DL when it reconnects to give you prioty again so their DL goes shit 😛
The only other halfway house is to disable Windows bandwidth reservation. I can’t remember off the top of my head as it’s been years since I’ve done it, but Windows reserves a good 10-20% of your bandwidth in case secondary services or Internet Explorer needs it. Get rid of that and you have an extra 10-20% of fuck all bandwidth to hopefully make your experience in whatever you’re doing that little bit more enjoyable.
EDIT: Doh I had forgotten all about it 😛 Just disable QoS Packet Scheduler in the Properties tab of your network connection, or look around for the registry hax if you want to change the % of the reserve.
As per the original question, well I gues you can go on http://www.speedtest.net and record the results at different times of the day, over a few days and compare results -_-
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