Re: Mac 'hogging' the internet on our network.
- From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 13:15:13 GMT
On Wed, 3 May 2006 12:33:35 +0100, "beauchampy"
<(b)e(a)uc(h)am(p)y(at)g(m)a(i)l(dot)com> wrote:
I live in a house with two other guys, we have the following setup:
Netgear 5 port hub connected to:
- My PC (Win XP SP2)
- Another PC (Win XP SP2)
- Dual G5 1.8 running OSX 10.3
- U.S Robotics USR9003 2 port ADSL router
- Linksys Wireless access point:
- My laptop (sometimes)
We have bulldog 8mb which works nicely.. Except whenever the G5 is connected
the internet speeds go right down on the PC's. Pings get significantly
higher and downloads that would usually go at 700-800kbs go at 60-80kbs.
Even when the G5 connection is idle (or so i think) he's not running any P2P
apps or downloading anything. The connection seems to be significantly
slower for his general browsing too.
Is it only the internet speeds that drop, or do you get slow local
links between the three wired computers too? (I'm ignoring the
wireless AP+laptop)
Do you get slowdown when the Mac is up and connected but logged out?
If you plug the Mac straight into the ADLS router, does the Mac still
get slow browsing?
Try different levels of disconnectedness: When does everything go back
to normal for the other machines as you go through this lot:
Start: Everything correct.
1) Manually put the correct IP settings in, but set the default
gateway on the Mac to something that isn't the router
2) Manually put in IP address settings that are incorrect for the
local network
3) Disable the ethernet port on the Mac in System Prefs, but leave it
plugged in
4) Unplug the mac ethernet cable
That's a bunch of experiments to get you started!
Cheers - Jaimie
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