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[noyaus]

Hi Guys
I have an issue with my whole network connection. I have NBN (National Broadband Network in Australia). The thing is my whole network is slowing down. This started happening past couple of days ago since October 27th 2017. My Internet Provider say I am going over my upload limit which is 1MB and my download is 12MB. Which I am not and this affecting my normal browsing. i.e YouTube video taking forever to load. This never happened before 27/10/17 it was always quick with no buffering. We have set up QoS this has apparently has no effect.

My main use for the Internet/WiFi is school work, Word, YouTube and reading the news.

 

[Solandri]

My Internet Provider say I am going over my upload limit which is 1MB

Most people don't realize, but saturating your upload bandwidth will slow down your download speeds. The vast majority of Internet traffic is done via TCP/IP, which is a reliable protocol. Your computer has to acknowledge to the server that has received each packet it has downloaded. If the server gets no such response, the download will stall (the server assumes you're still waiting to receive the previous packet so does not send the next packet).

The most common reason for saturating your upload bandwidth is file sharing. You're not just downloading stuff from other people, other people are downloading it from you. Their download is your upload. Since upload speeds are usually a lot slower than download speeds, filesharing can quickly max out your upload bandwidth, choking off your computer's TCP acknowledgement responses, slowing down your download speeds.

The easiest fix (other than stopping file sharing) is to set up QoS. But in your QoS parameters, you have to make sure the max upload bandwidth is about 85%-90% of your true upload bandwidth. This guarantees that you never saturate your upload bandwidth, and TCP acknowledgement packets get sent out immediately. Since your upload limit is 1 Mbps, you should set it to about 850-900 kbps in the QoS settings.

 

[noyaus]

Hi Solandri. I already have a QoS Setup. Is there any other ways to fix this. Because sometimes this also drops my internet connection as well. I contacted my ISP and all they say it that they'll monitor it.

Also another issue I am getting is that it is very hard to stream things for example YouTube takes for ever to let the grey thing to go. When I watch a video for FirstAid it's an openload or something like that normal not much buffering not the wheel goes on for like over 3 minutes.