Bandwidth Hogging

Caged · 8 Feb 2021 at 14:20

The UK average is 65Mbps or something like that. I only have access to a service delivered via an Openreach phone line, fortunately it delivers 70Mbps and while I'd take an FTTP service were it available there's nothing I *can't* do on this connection that going faster would allow.

Importantly, as people have already said, upgrading to a 200Mbps service won't stop the console updates from impacting on other services. This problem can be solved quickly with a router that supports traffic management, for a relatively small cost.

Cyber-Mav · 8 Feb 2021 at 14:39

do you not have a old router lying around? install something like dd-wrt on it?

Mujja · 8 Feb 2021 at 14:40

Cyber-Mav said:
wouldnt really say 80mbit is decent in this day and age.

I'm not the OP

And for users stuck on similar or less I doubt it's through choice.

Avalon · 8 Feb 2021 at 14:46

Caged said:
The UK average is 65Mbps or something like that. I only have access to a service delivered via an Openreach phone line, fortunately it delivers 70Mbps and while I'd take an FTTP service were it available there's nothing I *can't* do on this connection that going faster would allow.

Importantly, as people have already said, upgrading to a 200Mbps service won't stop the console updates from impacting on other services. This problem can be solved quickly with a router that supports traffic management, for a relatively small cost.

You can’t stream a high bit-rate 4K REMUX on 70Mbit... I tried to resist, I really did

Mujja · 8 Feb 2021 at 14:46

Avalon said:
Why exactly don’t we know what products are compatible with his EE router? They’re just another OR re-seller that happen to be BT owned. I can see why you say what you say, and I’m glad it’s working for you, but that’s not how bandwidth generally works unless you have a disproportionately large pipe and/or the external servers you are pulling data from can’t saturate it. As op is on FTTC, he’s likely one of the overwhelming majority (its claimed to be 65%ish from memory, but that ignored overbuild, and between OR, VM and alt-net you have a lot of overbuild) who haven’t got options for a faster service yet. Even if he did, without QoS it’s likely he will run into the same problem sooner or later, that’s why prioritising latency sensitive traffic is a better idea than what you suggest. Extra bandwidth doesn’t solve everything, I can have the same problem with a remote 10Gb WAN set-up if I don’t manage it.

Of course there are better long term solutions. I was giving the OP zero cost and simple solutions.

The OP asked :

suggest if there is a work around without the need to buy a router

Caged · 8 Feb 2021 at 14:58

Avalon said:
You can’t stream a high bit-rate 4K REMUX on 70Mbit... I tried to resist, I really did

Well I don't have a 4K TV so I'd have to downscale it anyway

Avalon · 8 Feb 2021 at 15:05

Mujja said:
What broadband service do you have?

You could upgrade the broadband or upgrade your router.

Mujja said:
Of course there are better long term solutions. I was giving the OP zero cost and simple solutions.

You literally said he could upgrade his broadband or his router, it’s unlikely either of those are going to be zero cost options.

Cyber-Mav · 8 Feb 2021 at 15:10

Avalon said:
You can’t stream a high bit-rate 4K REMUX on 70Mbit... I tried to resist, I really did

odd i thought 4k stuff didnt exceed 25mbit for streaming services. but then i guess if your watching a video and someones pc decides to do windows updates on the sly thats gonna hot some bandwidth too and may cause stutter.

Avalon · 8 Feb 2021 at 15:19

Cyber-Mav said:
odd i thought 4k stuff didnt exceed 25mbit for streaming services. but then i guess if your watching a video and someones pc decides to do windows updates on the sly thats gonna hot some bandwidth too and may cause stutter.

The critical bit of what I said was 4K REMUX, the bit-rate of a 4K BRD can spike at 100Mbit.

Cyber-Mav · 8 Feb 2021 at 16:14

Avalon said:
The critical bit of what I said was 4K REMUX, the bit-rate of a 4K BRD can spike at 100Mbit.

not a issue for the op and his yify rips.

WJA96 · 8 Feb 2021 at 17:18

Cyber-Mav said:
wouldnt really say 80mbit is decent in this day and age.

I went from 80Mbps/20Mbps to 140Mbps/20Mbps with G.Fast to 910/110Mbps with FTTP and in general use I don't see much difference. My offsite backup finishes MUCH faster because of the significantly faster upload speed but unless I'm downloading an ISO or something I don't really feel the speed difference. 80Mbps is perfectly adequate for most people.