annoyingly slow internet if I am uploading!

[audiot]

aha! i need to search thru my old posts cos when I was trying to get back to my mac workign I had to jump thro some hoops.. any ideas of the setting to look for?

luckily I decided to post what I had learnt incase it helped in the future!

[BaconBreadBaker]

There must be some settings on the modem or PC that is limiting the upload speed.

on mine?
- we dont have a modem (HKBN 100M fiber direct package)
- we have a router that i installed, and there is definitely no limiting to uploads or downloads
- and as mentioned before, the PC's upload blazingly fast, while mine is stuck around 250K max upload on whats supposed to be 100M

[audiot]

I found a page to set up the modem

192.168.8.1 log user pw user

but dont know what to fiddle with....

also complicating the situ is that I have a time capsule and I am using its wifi as my modem one would go on and off and didnt have a good range. and it also makes printer sharing better

[audiot]

on mine?
- we dont have a modem (HKBN 100M fiber direct package)
- we have a router that i installed, and there is definitely no limiting to uploads or downloads
- and as mentioned before, the PC's upload blazingly fast, while mine is stuck around 250K max upload on whats supposed to be 100M

could be software on your mac? I use cyberduck - its basically free altho I have donated...

[BaconBreadBaker]

could be software on your mac? I use cyberduck - its basically free altho I have donated...

its for everything...
http uploads(safari, firefox), FTP/SFTP (cyberduck, transmit), dropbox, etc
its not application related, has to be OS related. but cant find any settings that look like its limiting uploads.

[MrMoo]

Basic TCP networking, when downloading shit your computer needs to send ACK packets back to the source. If you are uploading at the same time, and the upload is saturating the link capacity then your downloads will be slowed by natural congestion control.

Solution is to rate limit the uploads to below your maximum upload capacity.

[audiot]

thanks for that -

I just tried throttling it to 50Kb/s leaving 10K/bs

made no difference..

actually I am feeling very jealous of virago's virile connection...... 400K up loads! yes please!

is it my connection? god forbid I actually have to call PCCW tech support!! hahaha

[Rob2020]

call PCCW, tell them you've been a customer for x years and request a free upgrade.
I did, and I went from 8M to 100M for free

[MrMoo]

thanks for that -

I just tried throttling it to 50Kb/s leaving 10K/bs

made no difference..

ACKs can take up to 60% of the download bandwidth speed in upload traffic.

Though there is a point that your Internet connection is just so slow that you aren't really going to be able to do multiple transfers at the same time.

So whilst you could try 40/20 or 30/30 it's going to be terrible for both processes no matter what.

I've been reading through these forums:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,26.0.html

And linked documentation:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide

[audiot]

thanks robert on the phone to pccw now - they say its a 6 meg connection and thats the fastest I can get in my area....

but is 64kb/sec upload normal for a 6m connection??? .. they say they will send some one to check....

what kind of speeds can I expect?

thanx