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Hi guys. I was wondering if any of you guys could possibly help with this. I know a little about computers, but when it comes to internet and wireless connections I'm completely lost.
I've recently moved in to a shared house in London with 5 other people. The house already had BT wireless broadband set up, but as I had a PC with no wireless card I asked if I could move the router (standard BT Home Hub) up to my room and thus have a wired connection. They all said that was fine so on we went. I found the internet to be extremely slow though. Browsing was ok, but I couldn't play games online. My house mate upstairs today came to me and said the same thing, that the internet was going really slow and he was having trouble doing anything. He said he downloads a lot and streams live TV, which at first made me think surely he was the problem? He started explaining that because my computer was the only device with a wired connection, I was using more bandwidth than everyone else and that I should look to buy a wireless dongle.
Basically I have no idea if this is true or if he just wants me to stop using the wired connection. Our internet is pretty terrible anyway. The average speed test showed a download speed of 3.0mb and an upload speed of 0.3mb (which is surely awful?). Would me switching to wireless make any difference? Or is his downloading causing more of a problem? If it is I would like to know a way of actually explaining this to him, as at the moment I have no clue.
Anyway, if you got through that wall of text congratulations and thanks!
I've recently moved in to a shared house in London with 5 other people. The house already had BT wireless broadband set up, but as I had a PC with no wireless card I asked if I could move the router (standard BT Home Hub) up to my room and thus have a wired connection. They all said that was fine so on we went. I found the internet to be extremely slow though. Browsing was ok, but I couldn't play games online. My house mate upstairs today came to me and said the same thing, that the internet was going really slow and he was having trouble doing anything. He said he downloads a lot and streams live TV, which at first made me think surely he was the problem? He started explaining that because my computer was the only device with a wired connection, I was using more bandwidth than everyone else and that I should look to buy a wireless dongle.
Basically I have no idea if this is true or if he just wants me to stop using the wired connection. Our internet is pretty terrible anyway. The average speed test showed a download speed of 3.0mb and an upload speed of 0.3mb (which is surely awful?). Would me switching to wireless make any difference? Or is his downloading causing more of a problem? If it is I would like to know a way of actually explaining this to him, as at the moment I have no clue.
Anyway, if you got through that wall of text congratulations and thanks!