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The title makes it seem like this will work for everyone, which is hardly the case. This only works if you have a notebook with one of the WiFi adapters listed in that post: >- Intel Centrino 6205 Advanced-N - Intel Centrino 6235 Advanced-N - Intel Centrino 6300 Ultimate-N

Which is pretty unlikely (but by all means do lookup the specifications of your laptop to see if you've got one of these). If you don't have that WiFi adapter, your laptop is not affected by this issue and your ping spikes are being caused by something else. Things you can try:

• Use a wired connection instead. It's pretty much always better than Wi-Fi, only use wireless if you really have no other option.
• Download NetLimiter to check which applications are uploading/downloading and by how much. Very useful if an auto-updating application suddenly decides to gobble up all your bandwith while you're playing League, because you can instantly check which application is causing it. You can also use it to temporarily block or limit said application's network access.

It kinda depends on how often you're sending requests. But in a lot of cases, it can make a huge difference. Take this page I'm responding to you on for example. Opening up the Chrome inspector to the Network tab shows that the HTML for this page is 14.4 KB. At 128 Kbps, that'd take roughly a second to transfer. With a typical latency of 50ms with 4G, it hardly affects the total time. With a typical latency of 500-1000 ms on a 2G connection, you can easily double the time it takes to load a page. Now consider that this page has 23 separate resource requests (stylesheets, javascript, images, etc), and each of those potentially has an extra full second of latency added on, and it really stacks up. Granted, your browser will usually request a handful of resources in parallel, and some of them will end up being cached. But it's still very much a factor in page load time.

Also consider any kind of server-side interactivity - things like submitting a comment on reddit or search suggestions as you type in google. The typical comment is usually just a couple hundred bytes. The connection speed won't matter hardly at all. But 50ms (instantaneous) vs 1000ms (noticeable delay) in latency makes for quite a different feel. Search suggestions as you type feel much less helpful if you have to wait a second or two before they load.

If you want to experiment a bit, take a look at Net Limiter.

Not a solution to OP's problem, but for overall bandwith allocation I use NetLimiter, it shows bandwidth used by different applications separately, allows to set individual limits, and shows to wich IPs data goes/comes from.

(On a "meh" side - it's pretty expensive, but I couldn't find freeware programm that dose that.)

I solved this problem by running Netlimiter 4 on my Windows 8.1 machine. I agree with you-- if the bitcoin node eats up ALL my upstream bandwidth, then my internet connection becomes un-usuable. So the only way is to limit it.

Now I run my bitcoin node 24/7 and can watch movies and play games and it's fine :)

I have DSL with about 1.5MB downstream and 150KB upstream, so I set NetLimiter to limit Bitcoin Core to 1.17MB down 100KB upstream. I found that was the max before I noticed bandwidth performance degradation in other areas. I highly recommend this solution as it's been working great for me.

The R* launcher/downloader is crap. There is no reason they couldn't have included a throttle setting. But that's a rant - not help.

You can download a free 30-day trial of NetLimiter to force-throttle individual applications.

Hey! Just noticed your speedtest and you're from the UK?

I'm with Sky and I live in Staffordshire and my internet is ABYSMAL (1mb down, 0.5 up). In fact, the whole of Staffordshire has dreadful internet.

Anyway, I used this http://www.netlimiter.com/. Basically it tells you what internet activity is going on in the background and you can use this with DOTA. Normally I get something called "Steam Client Webhelper" that downloads every time I open up DOTA and I have to limit it's output otherwise I can't play at all (this normally impacts stuff like steam web browsing in general and the shop/compendium in the dota client). I can't say if its different with Source 2 since I haven't tried (can barely download it), but it helps at times with the basic client.

You never know, it could be something else eating up your net but for me personally I found this was a solution. Also I can't play unless nobody else is using the internet in which case I have to go into my routers settings and disable the WIFI completely and use an ether-net. I only get around 90-120ping with all of this but my internet seems worse than yours.

Hope this helps..

Hey. I used to have the same problem and discovered this program called Net Limiter. You can basically see what programs are using how much internet and limit individual programs on each PC. Might help you out :) http://www.netlimiter.com/

Well.. looking good here so far.. >> http://i.imgur.com/7TaYDJ3.png

EDIT: hanging mostly around 16-17MB/s

EDIT 2: > For the Application I am using Netlimiter 4 Beta under activity tab. >> http://www.netlimiter.com/content/download/nl4/netlimiter-4.0.10.0.exe

50KB/s == 180MB/hr

10GB monthly == 55 hr of "actively playing" Diablo

Thats ~2 hours/day to reach quota.

~1 hour a day of vigorous gameplay would use half of your monthly quota. That line is pretty painful if you're not super casual. (30 min/day avg using ¼ total quota, etc.)

Get home each night, run a few rifts for 60-90 minutes to blow off steam. Play a couple hours a day on the weekend. Easily half your quota or more.

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Games are generally designed to gracefully degrade for poor/slower/overseas/dialup/etc. connections, but will happily use all the throughput available to provide a more optimal experience if its available. (This obviously doesn't take into account total transfer limitations/quota.) I wonder if using something like NetLimiter set to 20-25 KB/s to emulate a "slow connection" would still yield a playable experience while cutting the total data transfer significantly.

Does your router have QoS? That can help you throttle just your PC. You can also limit certain applications using certain programs. A lot of people recommend NetLimiter which has a free trial mode that should fit your purposes.

http://www.netlimiter.com/

It says it's mainly for setting limits, but it's good for just recording stats too. I set it up on a friend's computer a couple of years ago to help reduce mobile tethering data usage.

Very cool. I was just searching for something like this yesterday and turned up a paid app netlimiter. Glad to have a free alternative on Windows. Most solutions I found involved IPTABLES.

Netlimiter does allow for limiting per application - is that something clumsy can do?

Depending on your OS, you can limit the speed which bitcoind uses.

For windows you can use NetLimiter

For Linux I would recommend using the build in TC

Please bear in mind that this node was run 24/7 and did not lose connection over a significant amount of time. If you reboot your bitcoind node it will take some while before bandwidth usage starts picking up again

Unless I've missed something, DD-WRT has never had the option to set a data cap. You can set a bandwidth cap, which will limit the internet speed, but nothing to prevent you from exceeding your monthly allotment.

The only firmware I'm aware of that does this (I'm sure there are others) is Gargoyle's firmware. I'm not entirely sure it's supported on the WRT160N though. The WRT160NL, however, is supported.

If upgrading the firmware doesn't appeal to you, I've heard great things about NetLimiter.

I can't say for sure, but I don't imagine there is a great deal of bandwidth. I remember GW1 making you download areas dynamically, so when ever you entered a new area it would download all the stuff. But I don't think GW2 does that.

Whats really going to kill you are the patches or VoIP programs.

What I would do, If'n I were you, is install NetLimiter and have it cut you off when you reach a certain limit. It will also help you keep a close eye on all traffic on your PC. You can really start to trim the seriously chatty programs and use it for GW2 instead :-D

NetLimiter. It costs money, but it's damned good.

E: I'll expand on this a bit... NetLimiter allows you to impose limits on how much bandwidth your computer, applications, or even the individual connections to an IP use. You can add "rules" to either of these, including "scheduling" rules - setting when to impose, or when to stop imposing limits on whatever application/connection.

You could start Steam downloading before you go to bed, and limit how much data it uses until 2am - and then let it run wild and re-limit it at 8am; all while you're asleep.

This is due to a shitty download client that chokes your network connection. If you manually throttle the application to only be able to use 70% of your available network bandwidth it works fine.

Try http://www.netlimiter.com/download

Well, it's very good, i can affirm it, there's also more options that i didn't talk about, like the priorities, which is something important i think. you can check all the features here :

http://www.netlimiter.com/docs/netlimiter-overview/basic-features

you're welcome !

http://www.netlimiter.com/

This software tracks incoming and outgoing traffic and breaks it down per program. Almost every online game I play is a few dozen kb/s, and voice chat is usually the same. If you're logging dozens of gigs when playing games, there's a good chance you've got a virus.

I... what?

Slow? Steam's downloads easily top 10MB/s. That's more than a gigabyte every 2 minutes.

Time estimates are impossible to get correct due to variations in network traffic, but Steam does a pretty decent job.

If a simple download is actually slowing down your pc, how the hell can you play any of these games?

Again, slowing down your internet isn't a problem with Steam - you're likely just maxing out your bandwidth while downloading, and so other applications will run slowly. You can always use a tool like NetLimiter to cap Steam's bandwidth so you can still use other applications while you download.

You can use an application like Netlimiter to throttle applications and bandwidth on a per application or per computer basis.

http://www.netlimiter.com/

There are a few applications like this out there, so search around if this doesn't work for you. I think don't think the software is free, but there should be a free one around.

On a side note, you shouldn't really be using Outlook to send very large files. I realise everyone does, but it wasn't designed for that. The email protocols were designed way before people had the ability to send large files around.

You'd be better off using a cloud based file sharing service and then sending your recipient a link so that they can download the file.

Ones that come to mind are Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

I have no idea. I've used several. My favorites though are...

NetSpeedMonitor - http://www.floriangilles.com/software/netspeedmonitor/

Seriousbit Netbalancer - http://seriousbit.com/

Netlimiter - http://www.netlimiter.com/ (Netlimiter is in the process of completely rewriting the whole program so the current version does look a bit old but works perfectly well....just not on windows 8)

If you have a router that has QoS options you can limit your bandwidth on the port TCP: 22556 to use only a certain percentage of your up and down bandwidth. I'm not to sure if there are free bandwidth limiting software, although you could try NetLimiter

Totally depends on the router. On some newer ones it is possible to restrict speeds by IP ranges, or even specific MAC addresses. I would search for this topic alongside your specific router model to see if anyone has a guide for how this could be done.

The easier solution (assuming that you have the cooperation of the individual in your household that's using the internet) is to install an internet throttle on their computer. netlimiter seems to have a good reputation.

I have a ping of less than 10 as well.

I've done some research on the subject and this is what I can find so far.

Some people are using Net Limiter (http://www.netlimiter.com/) to cap bandwitch and somehow cause intentional latency. (I'm no expert by any means on terminology but I think I understand the concepts in play here)

Download and Upload speeds aren't important with lag compensation, our ping is. (latency) As I understand it can be caused by any interference in signal.

I think one solution is to intentionally cause interference. I'm wondering if a hundred foot Ethernet cable would be enough to cause some latency. Any thoughts from the "smarter than me" crowd?

~~Try this one:~~

~~http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771283%28WS.10%29.aspx~~

Actually this wont do what you need. You need additional software to do this.

http://www.netlimiter.com/

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I spent a long time trying to find a good bandwidth monitor. http://www.netlimiter.com/ is the best that I found.

It not only gives instantaneous data but records usage over time. You can view usage by program or by time over any time period. I'm not sure the free version lets you limit bandwidth but it's extremely helpful for browsing the internet while trying to download.

Thanks. I use spotify at work and we have a really small pipe and no one has issues. Not sure why your spotify is being like that. Turn off all social networking stuff on spotify. Not sure where those settings are but I'm sure you can find them. See if that helps. If not you can limit the bandwidth spotify uses with http://www.netlimiter.com/

NetLimiter is what I usually see recommended. Let's you monitor bandwidth and even restrict speeds for certain applications (think that's in the paid version only though) if you want.

You could also try checking your router settings/config page and seeing if you can setup an overall bandwidth log there.

one easy way to make sure ure not unknowingly dos'ing anything is using NetLimiter http://www.netlimiter.com/news.php?id=42 (free 30day usage or so) run it and check if any any programs that u cant identify send/recieve data.

I have no personal experience with Heroes online, but this sounds like the problem .... A lot of these newer installers use bit torrent in their back end to help reduce the bandwidth requirements for their host companies. The problem is that they do not cap the upload in any way; the priority of uploading is so high that it negatively effects the download speed for the files you are trying to download to begin with --and takes a shit on your internet connection to boot.

Find a traffic shaping program you like and just cap the upload of the installer to ~5kbs. Netlimiter is a popular one.

I use NetLimiter 4. It's free, it works, you can set custom rules.

I use it to make sure that my games have higher priority than my plex media server/FTP server for example.

Edit: http://www.netlimiter.com
there's the link

you can try with specific tools to limit her bandwidth. you have to install this tool on her pc and make it automatically start on every startup of windows in stealth mode. maybe in the icon tray and then hiding the icon in the settings

you can try install a limiter program on your family devices,and see if there is any result. if for example you have 10mbps connection, go limit your family to 2-3 mbps.
http://www.netlimiter.com/download or google, personaly i have a old cracked version with no limit time.

http://imgur.com/EJD4sny you can see here, i have a limit(disabled this moment because my brother is not here) 891289Kb (0.85 MB)

NetLimiter.

"NetLimiter is an ultimate internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows"

It's great for people with bandwidth caps. It can throttle bandwidth per-process. I used to cap Steam's download (before they implemented that feature) so I can could games online without lagging. :D

NetLimiter - Let's you monitor and put limits on all downloading and uploading your computer does.

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitor temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of your computer.

With NetLimiter 4 you can check incoming and outgoing data. RuneScape would use 113 kb/s according to the 400mb but for me it's only going up to 200 b/s.

If you're on Windows you can use a third party software to control the network speed of your apps like NetLimiter (official or not so official )

Grab a trial version of this: http://www.netlimiter.com/ and see if some weird app or program is stealing your bandwidth (for me, turning off wudo and automatic app updates from the store did the trick, but I see your case is different).

Hey,

Try installing this http://www.netlimiter.com/ and seeing what comes up.

Basically it is a program that collects all the internet data your PC is using, from any software running on that device. Sometimes you can have things pop up in the background without you knowing, I know I have to limit the DL output of some program like Steam Client Webhelper (for loading browsers in-game and such) and sometimes Steam Client Bootstrapper from downloading stuff in the background too while I play games.

Download it and have a look, you might find your solution.

There is no "fix". Fix would be to get better internet. However, workaround would be to use 3rd party software like NetLimiter to restrict download speed on other computers working in network.

There's a few programs you can install that will allow you to limit bandwidth or set quotas. Netlimiter is one, but I use Netbalancer, because it displays the data used by each application that accesses the internet. Very handy when you're using a mobile device to access the net.

They are not free, but pretty reasonably priced, in my opinion. NetBalancer seems a bit more powerful than NetLimiter, but I haven't used NetLimiter to any great extent, so I can't be 100% on that.

With NetBalancer, once your 30 day trial is over, your are then limited to setting the priorites on just 3 applications/processes, as well as filters on just 3 applications/processes.

For the PC's, you actually answered your question in the question.

There's a program called Netlimiter

That will do everything you want and more for the PC's.

For the mobile devices, you'll need a router that supports bandwidth limiting.

at least 512kbps down/up should be enough. i used to play CS:GO using 3G mobile connection and besides 120ish ping it was ok, game was playable

what makes worst lag is amount of connections so you cant use torrent and other p2p apps at all. make sure QoS is enabled on your router. also ask your brother to install netlimiter and keep it enabled while playing

It happens.

Even the ones that I've seen built to install covertly on people's machines and run in the background would show something in task manager that you can't attribute to anything else, though. Worth a shot. Worth also running something like NetLimiter because it'll be sending and receiving data to process and this way it'll practically tattle on itself when it has to ask you permission to have an outbound connection.

You can't 'allocate more bandwidth' to programs, only throttle what you already get. What you want to do is throttle the bandwidth on your sibling's computers. An application like http://www.netlimiter.com/ is what you want.

If you need to control your connection on one or two PC's only and you have administrative rights on both of them you can use http://www.netlimiter.com/ to limit bandwith usage but the only way to limit usage on every single device connected to your router including mobile devices you will need a router based limiting solution.

Yeah, you can have a 10 Mbit and still lag when someone streaming a Youtube video or something similar. There's nothing to tell the router to only use so and so.

You can install NetLimiter on all the computers and choose which applications get how much bandwidth to use. Or you could install a custom firmware (DD-WRT) to your router, if it supports it, with an incredibly customizable Quality of Service.

NetLimiter: http://www.netlimiter.com/ (torrent)
DD-WRT: http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index

It sounds like there is something on your network sucking down all your bandwidth. You need to find and isolate whatever it is doing it.

Start off with only your PC connected, via a cable to the router and see how the speeds are. Use something like www.speedtest.net and keep adding devices until you find what is causing the network to slow own.

If that doesn't work, it could be something running on your PC, in which case, the 45 day trial of NetLimiter4 will tell you what program is using bandwidth and how much of said bandwidth it is using.

An alternative to this is installing Netlimiter, which will let you control how much bandwidth programs are using.

For people on adsl, Spotify is a true mess, when you only have 0.5mbit upload capacity, its ridiculously easy to experience crippling congestion.

Basically you can think of it like merging vehicles, where in this case merging ten lanes into five is much easier than merging two into one.

For what it's worth, Spotify originated in Sweden, where people even back then had amazing speeds. There's a reason thepiratebay.org started in Sweden. Spotify was not really designed with low capacity internet in mind, it was meant to be a legit P2P service (allowing central servers to fill demand, but preferably not be the main provider) even though I doubt the founders never admitted to this.

I've been with Spotify since the start, but it's not until recently I've gotten the most out of it, as a Norwegian I had adsl myself way back when, and only recently got a mobile data plan which allows streaming.

Download Netlimiter. V4 is currently in beta and is free. It shows download/upload traffic of any application on your computer.

For latency tests just run "ping <url>" while connected and disconnected to the VPN.

NetLimiter > NetLimiter is an ultimate internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows. You can use NetLimiter to set download/upload transfer rate limits for applications or even single connection and monitor their internet traffic. > Along with this unique feature, Netlimiter offers comprehensive set of internet statistical tools. It includes real-time traffic measurement and long-term per-application internet traffic statistics > There are 3 NetLimiter editions available, Pro, Lite and freeware Monitor.

You will usually saturate a typical home Internet connection when streaming 1080p video from Youtube, not to mention downloading patches on League of Legends. If you want to minimize some of that, look at something like http://www.netlimiter.com/download.php Considering you have limited knowledge of networking this would be your easiest solution, you can limit bandwidth on a per application basis.

That's quite odd... My last piece of advise would be to just try and launch the game, and then see what happens.

Bear in mind that sometimes Steam says that the download isn't progressing, meanwhile it's actually working away. I've noticed that it's this UI bug that occurs from time to time.

A great little piece of software you can use is NetLimiter 3.0, it gives you a detailed breakdown of each process that's connected to the internet and how much bandwidth is being used up by it. It also has a few other useful features (such as allocating bandwidth limits for specific programs like Steam, etc.), but it could help you get closer to solving your problem.

I can't say for sure, but I don't imagine there is a great deal of bandwidth. I remember GW1 making you download areas dynamically, so when ever you entered a new area it would download all the stuff. But I don't think GW2 does that.

Whats really going to kill you are the or VoIP programs.

What I would do, If'n I were you, is install NetLimiter and have it cut you off when you reach a certain limit. It will also help you keep a close eye on all traffic on your PC. You can really start to trim the seriously chatty programs and use it for GW2 instead :-D

I own Net Limiter and have been running it on all my systems for most of the decade in order to manage my traffic and control pesky software just like this.

But I'm sure one could do this for free. Sniff the outgoing traffic to find the IP they use, then add that to Windows <u>hosts</u> file so it routes to localhost.

http://www.netlimiter.com/ (Full 30 day free trial available)

can monitor traffic (and limit download and upload speeds) for individual programs that are sending data over the computers internet connection as well is LAN and other networks.

there is a small bandwidth control utility that used to be popular, but it wasn't free though, and damn if I can remember the name, it didn't do QoS but used its own system.

I think this is the one netlimiter

But there are others like this one http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/bandwidth-control.htm it seems, also not free though I fear.

Personable I'd use the functionality in my router, and speaking of which, you can get routers for the price competitive with that software these days with QoS and bandwidth management, this is a popular one for instance TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND.

But yeah at that point we perhaps went overboard in finding a solution? :)

If you have access to all four machines the easiest solution would probably be to install NetLimiter on all of them. NetLimiter can measure the amount of downloaded data so leave it running for a couple of days on all machines and you'll detect which machine that causes the problem.

...Netlimiter offers comprehensive set of internet statistical tools. It includes real-time traffic measurement and long-term per-application internet traffic statistics

http://www.netlimiter.com/

I don't know about the networking aspect but I've used both Netlimiter and DU Meter in the past to good effect. Neither are free unfortunately.

Is anything working in background, downloading/uploading? You can check it with netlimiter, it has trial version. Also try booting into safe mode with networking and see if it loads any faster.