Is it my routers fault

[cack01]

OK I have about 350KB of bandwidth. Lets say I'm using up about 30-50 downloading and various surfing (4 people sare the conection). Its my understanding that I have a lot of bandwidth left, but yet online games such as CS will crawl even though it only needs 3-4 KB/s. Even if someone is just downloading, the internet will very slow even though by the numbers I have a lot of banwidth left. Is this due to my router just being horrible at managing packets?? If not, what could possibly be casuing this? Is this just the way it is.

 

[PsYcO CyBrArIaN]

Have you ping tested it yet to deduce where the problem originates yet?

 

[DDR-PIII]

Hmm, I've got a similar setup, but a bit more bandwidth, but when ppl on the 3 other computer are download stuff off say.. kazaa itll lag a bit, but its usually the server that lags not me. maybe limit their bandwdith ? if you really want more :/

 

[cack01]

I havn't ping tested it yet. Kazaa is the main problem, but I really can't do anything about it.

 

[MameXP]

THats normal dont worry. Its because your conection is NOT symetric therefore whenever the conection is being used (upload/download) there is a big latency between packets.

And yes you CANT calculate your throughout by using substraction math. For example, you have 1.5mbps download and you downloading 50kb/s your rommate WONT have 1mbps left.

MameXP

 

[cack01]

Alright thanks for the input guys, I guess I'll just ride it out.