splitting a broadband connection?

RoyalMarine

hi.

we've a 3mb line.
my brother plays his xbox 360 a lot, and when ever anyone else surfs the net it lags him out of it.
ive been onto eircom millions of times over it, and they refuse to help me as they say my line is working normally.

anything i could do to split the connection? say devide it in 2, so it can have 1.5 meg and 1.5 meg?

anyone know if its possible?

conjamuk

You could get the Hawking broadband booster, it balances out the bandwidth between multiple connections reducing latency.

RoyalMarine

is it hardware or software?

conjamuk

Hardware heres the link, hope it helps you.:)
http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=36&FamID=80&ProdID=216

watty

Not worth it and it doesn't reduce latency.

But you may have a substandard router. I found my WiFi + 4port switch + Router did not cope well with my own LAN traffic so I added 8 port 3com 10/100/1000 switch for LAN and Clarkconnect (free Linux, just boot CD to install) on an old PIII 400MHz as firewall/Router. The original box just does wifi now.

[Have a Netgear 100M 8port too]

RoyalMarine

watty what router etc you using?

watty

http://www.clarkconnect.com/
community edition 4.0 on a PIII 400MHz.
Download, burn CD, boot from cd , click next... Wipes existing hard disk.
You need a 2nd network card in the PC obviously.

If you use the new Version 4.2, adding the optional Asterisk VOIP PABX would need about 1.8GHz CPU or better and 384M RAM or more. The Router/Firewall on it's own will run on 300MHz CPU and 256M RAM.

The original Router was DI-634M a Dlink MIMO 108Mbps SuperG. We only use it for WiFi access now on the LAN. Its 4 port switch could not handle much LAN traffice without LAN pings rising from <1ms to > 50ms (Thus internet rising from 40ms+ to 90ms+). We use a 3com giga Switch 8 (cheap 10/100/1G) as 8 port switch.

MrVestek

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

watty what router etc you using?

He's using an old PC as his router, not an actual device.