PS3 Hogging All The Bandwidth + Wired connections

[crazyduck]

I have a BT HomeHub 3 router with BT's Fibre optic "infinity" plan. This means I have no data cap and should get decent speeds. Most of the time on my laptop running windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, it is fine and also on 2 other laptops and 3 mobile devices. Although, whenever the PS3 is used for Netflix or downloading an update it hogs all the bandwidth, so all the other devices can't connect to the internet/ very very slow speeds. Now when netflix is on one of the laptops the internet speeds don't slow down on other devices (well you can't tell at all) and I can run netflix streaming on two devices at the same time as well! But the PS3 and netflix just doesn't mix.

I was wondering whether a wired connection would be better for the PS3, would it stop taking so much bandwidth? Or would a new router deal with the problem as on the Home Hub 3 you can't change any settings except very basic ones. Should I get a router with QoS and limit its bandwidth that it could take? Also my BT Home Hub 3 only has speeds of 38Mbps on Wi-Fi and my laptop card can take 144Mbps. So would I get an internet speed increase by getting a better router?

 

[bill001g]

It will be very hard to realistically limit a device.

The number you posts are strange. What is 38mbps is that the amount you pay for from the ISP. 144m is a strange connection speed it means you are getting pretty good signals but it does not want to use wide channels. It may not matter if your internet connection plan it not real fast.

Netflix even when you download HD movies is only about 6m. So as long as you have a fairly large internet connection you should not see this.

You need to test with wired connection to determine where the issue is. Wireless issues are very random and hard to find anything that can run wired without a lot of trouble you need to run wired just to make life easier. Most time wireless issues are interference related and there is not a lot you can do about it.