surfing websites nearly impossible when downloading

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When downloading something, e.g a game from steam, I can no longer access websites. It just gives a website cannot be found.

I have a DGN2000 router

Any idea what's happening?

 

[gillywibble]

Are you sure they're not torrents?

 

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nope not torrenting. It's at its worst when downloading patches like today's BC2 patch or downloading games off steam

 

[KIA]

You will probably need to cap the speed using netlimiter as Steam is saturating your line.

 

[Phoenix26]

Could try setting up QOS to give your http traffic priority.

 

[benftl]

if you're getting 'website cannot be found' then it's most likely that your router is being overwhelmed by the amount of connections steam is creating. try increasing available connections in the router menu (dgteam has that option at least), or try decreasing connections used in Steam itself (if possible?).

 

[KIA]

I doubt Steam uses a lot of connections. It probably doesn't even multi-thread!?

 

[benftl]

Doesn't Steam use P2P? Some routers die when a small amount of connections are made, for example the DIR615 default f/w suffers at around 30 and I wouldn't be surprised if Steam exceeded this amount.

 

[KIA]

Steam connects to a CDN.

 

[isurfer]

Have you compared how fast you are downloading to a speed test? Remember download speeds are usually given in bytes and speed tests in bits. 8 bits to a byte

 

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if you're getting 'website cannot be found' then it's most likely that your router is being overwhelmed by the amount of connections steam is creating. try increasing available connections in the router menu (dgteam has that option at least), or try decreasing connections used in Steam itself (if possible?).

How would you go about doing that?

 

[benftl]

Go to 'TCP/IP parameters Setup' and set 'max conntrack' to something like 2000.