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As of late my room mate started streaming himself playing DotA and I think it may be having an affect on my internet. Over the last few days, my internet has been pretty bad. Watching streams has been near impossible with it dcing every few minutes or lagging behind, and playing Starcraft has been a bit laggy too.
However, today I was at work all day and my room mate was streaming for the last 12 hours; I have not been on the internet all day. When I came home, my internet was not even working. It would allow me to connect for about 5 seconds, then it would dc me and I couldn't find the network, then I'd be able to find it again, and the cycle would continue. I'm wondering if it is possible that he is "hogging" all of the bandwidth or something. Keep
I'm really not even sure if streaming would cause an issue for me and not him, as he has been saying that his internet only periodically gets bad, and no where near to the extent mine is. His will get laggy maybe once every few hours for two or three minutes, and when we are both on at the same time, it seems to be even lag for us both. But today, as I described in the above paragraph, really makes me not know what to think.
Thanks for the help in advance.
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Well the same happened for me once when my brother streamed things. There are sure more and better solutions than mine but here they go:
1) Your roommate should just lower bandwith usage with xsplit or whatever he's streaming, if he's trying to get all out from the internet of course your will be fucked and he will be "fine".
2) Well the captain obvious answer would be, why not just try to update upload speed if possible, even if it costs little bit more?
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Both of you can install Netlimiter. Make an agreement that when you are both home, you set the netlimiter to 50 % of the bandwidth. When only one of you are home, you can of course take 100 % 
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Yeah, more information would help.
How much bandwidth do you have according to your ISP and how much do you get from speedtest.net ? (test when you have the line all for yourself)
Could your ISP be imposing some quota on the traffic or throttling it?
Is the connection shared with just an ethernet splitter or via a proper router? Are you or the roommate using wireless?
Sounds like you getting screwed over, the mystery is how and by whom. If it's indeed just a matter of bandwidth being hogged, the abovementioned netlimiter trick oughta solve it...
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2 things come into my mind:
1.) both of you install http://www.netlimiter.com/ .
2.) some routers are able to divide the bandwidth between mac-adresses (every pc in a network has a unique mac-adress).
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He is streaming in HD quality. I'm no sure if this means anything, but where it says bytes sent and received in the network properties, his is around 5,000,000,000 on both. His computer is off and instill can't use the Internet.
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how much does streaming really affect your download speed though. i thought it affects your upload speed way more.
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Tell him to lower his bitrate about 100 - 150Kbps as most games dont even use that much bandwidth anyway unless your hosting games. 100 Kbps will be more than enough for you to be able to play at a comfortable speed while he is still streaming.
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On January 13 2012 19:20 -Trippin- wrote:
He is streaming in HD quality. I'm no sure if this means anything, but where it says bytes sent and received in the network properties, his is around 5,000,000,000 on both. His computer is off and instill can't use the Internet.
did he install netlimiter on your pc or changed the router-settings?
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On January 13 2012 20:50 kaffeejunkie wrote:Show nested quote +On January 13 2012 19:20 -Trippin- wrote:
He is streaming in HD quality. I'm no sure if this means anything, but where it says bytes sent and received in the network properties, his is around 5,000,000,000 on both. His computer is off and instill can't use the Internet. did he install netlimiter on your pc or changed the router-settings?
No.
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You should really log onto the router and check if he has dicked around in order to get all the bandwidth while you get none. If that is the case then it means it's war!! What kind of router do you have?
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On January 13 2012 19:40 AeroEffect wrote:
Tell him to lower his bitrate about 100 - 150Kbps as most games dont even use that much bandwidth anyway unless your hosting games. 100 Kbps will be more than enough for you to be able to play at a comfortable speed while he is still streaming.
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So after several hours after he is done streaming himself playing DotA 12 hours strait in HD quality does my Internet work again. I realize that this may be a redundant question, but does it mean anything that under the wireless network connextion status under activity, my bytes sent and recieved are 50,000 and 630,000, whereas his are 5,000,000,000 and 3,000,000,000? Would that cause such a problem to occur?
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He is using all the upload speed. As people already mentioned, tell him to lower the streaming quality or reduce the upload.
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But would that really effect me even hours after he is done?
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No, it should not. If you still got problems after he is done streaming, maybe try to switch the router off and on again.
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On January 13 2012 22:00 -Trippin- wrote:
But would that really effect me even hours after he is done?
Log onto the router and see if QoS or something is active.
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Older routers can also crap out with a higher number of tcp connections.. See if rebooting the router helps, mine goes right to hell after running torrents, won't come back to stable until reboot.
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