I'm not sure whether there is a problem or not but it bugs the hell out of me! Say, for example, I'm using a P2P program and downloading at a total of 60 KB/S (I have a 5MB line), I go to surf things on browser and it takes forever to load anything (like dial-up speed). I don't understand ... it seems that it only wants to do one thing at once, even if that one thing is downloading a FTP file at 300KB/S. Is this a problem? I may have narrowed it down to the fact that I use telephone extension cable to bring the connection upstairs to my IPCop box. Would using a 10m long RJ11 cable instead solve this?
Some p2p programs such as Limewire allow you to adjust the amount of bandwith you want to reserve for downloading. In the options menu, you will see a slider which you can adjust. The default setting is 100%, which means all of your bandwith is used for downloading
Think I've solved it ... Tiscali has been throttling p2p ports (I was using 10666 for Limewire), which slows my whole connection down, not just the p2p software. I changed the port to 443 and seems to be a hell of a lot better! Fingers crossed, it'll stay like that! :EDIT: Now using port 5005 (Cisco file transfer port) and can download at 200 Kb/s + with no interferance with browsing whatsoever ... yay me!
