When my Linux box has a lot of connections (eg when downloading an ISO
via BitTorrent), the network connectivity gets very slow for other things.
Now this could be because the total bandwidth usage is high, but I'm
seeing this even when the total bandwidth on my cable connection is say
50kbps down, 10kbps up.
As this is cable, I may be hitting Virgin bandwidth limits (I'm not sure
how to tell), and this may sometimes be the case because if I test with
another PC on my home network I sometimes find it is also slow. Other
times the other PC is fine. In any case, killing the torrent download
usually (not always) speeds everything up.
So, there seem to me to be several possible issues (any/all of which may
be applying at different times), but I don't know how to diagnose it.
For example, it may be the total number of connections at the router (a
cheap Netgear wireless cable router supplied by Virgin), or maybe even
at the virgin cable modem box? I try rebooting any of these and
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I am very aware that I'm
just trying random things and not really getting anywhere!
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