On 08/04/10 10:48, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Out of interest, How do PC to PC transfers within your Lan perform when the network is in this state. So from your torrent machine to another box on your local subnet ?
Good question, I haven't tried this.
Also is the PC with the torrents running on wlan or an ethernet connection ?. If it is on wlan do you have other machines on a wired connection to your router and are they unaffected when the rest of the network is in go-slow mode.
The "other" PC is an XP laptop on wireless, but the main machine is on a cabled connection.
Finally you could use something like mtr, http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ to trace to an external ip and give you a running average of the hops to your router and beyond and see if and where the latency increases when the network is in this state.
Thanks for that one, I'll add that to the list to try.
Answering those should at least allow you to eliminate your internal lan or the torrent machine itself, some cheap consumer grade routers do struggle with a high number of connections. But with something like mtr it should be possible to watch the hop across your local lan to the netgear, the hop from that to the virgin router and then the hop from the virgin router to its gateway and then possibly spot where the problem is.
I'll try those tests and see where it gets me. eBuyer have a cheap wireless cable router for just over £10+VAT delivered that I'm going to try as well - for the sake of a tenner I figured it couldn't do any harm to compare notes!