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Do I need to change my ISP?
My service is asymetrical, 256k up 768k down. I have a secured wireless network of 6 computers. Connecting #6 causes a brief loss of internet connection for the other computers (this then resolves itself after the initial spike). I would like to upgrade enough to eliminate this problem but i don't know how much is enough. I suspect I need to go to another provider that has 2M or 3M symetrical packages. The service I have can go to 1.5 or 2M down but I'm stuck with the lower up. Is there a chance that increasing only the downlink speed could actually solve my problem?
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
depending on your router it could just be flooding out ARP requests to find neighbors/devices. If you can run a wireshark scan and monitor how many arp requests hit a computer that is on the network, that could show you whats going on at the time of connection.
Having a faster download rate would definitively help your situation of having 6 computers on the same network. With that many users on the network at once I'd be surprised if you didn't have more downtime and more data collisions on a consumer graded wireless router.
Source(s): http://www.wireshark.org/ - Anonymous1 decade ago
For 6 computers I wouldn't have anything less than 5M downspeed. Upspeed is important for certain tasks, but downspeed is what most users care about.
It might be your router being unable to handle that many computers?
- DavidLv 71 decade ago
the more you have on wireless the more you loose wireless will always be slower
