I just recently figured out the cause of a ping spiking problem I've been having; Whenever anyone other than myself is using the internet, my ping will intermittently spike up for 5-10 seconds or so, and I realized that it's due to all of the computers in our house downloading/uploading information at the fastest possible speed and basically hamstringing everyone else's connection, especially people using real time applications.
I was just wondering what the easiest way to go about fixing this would be, I've looked into setting up a router and trying to install a QoS client on it.(although my isp is AT&T u-verse so I'm not really sure if using a router with DSL is possible.)
I just recently figured out the cause of a ping spiking problem I've been having; Whenever anyone other than myself is using the internet, my ping will intermittently spike up for 5-10 seconds or so, and I realized that it's due to all of the computers in our house downloading/uploading information at the fastest possible speed and basically hamstringing everyone else's connection, especially people using real time applications.
I was just wondering what the easiest way to go about fixing this would be, I've looked into setting up a router and trying to install a QoS client on it.(although my isp is AT&T u-verse so I'm not really sure if using a router with DSL is possible.)
Yes you can plugin a router to a DSL modem+router combo. Make sure to disable the NAT table on the AT&T modem+router combo.
Don't pick up a wrt54GL...it's horribly outdated in terms of hardware.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/ is a good review site. Their forums has some tech reps that hop in as well.
hmm...I thought uverse was all about fios, did they merge DSL into it too?
Yes you can plugin a router to a DSL modem+router combo. Make sure to disable the NAT table on the AT&T modem+router combo.
Don't pick up a wrt54GL...it's horribly outdated in terms of hardware.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/ is a good review site. Their forums has some tech reps that hop in as well.
hmm...I thought uverse was all about fios, did they merge DSL into it too?
jp_Don't pick up a wrt54GL...it's horribly outdated in terms of hardware.
I've been reading about using Tomato firmware for QoS, and from what I understand the wrt54GL works perfectly with it; is there something I'm missing?
jp_hmm...I thought uverse was all about fios, did they merge DSL into it too?
From what I understand, u-verse is a broadband internet connection achieved through utilizing DSL lines, although I'm not really sure how it works
[quote=jp_]Don't pick up a wrt54GL...it's horribly outdated in terms of hardware.[/quote]
I've been reading about using Tomato firmware for QoS, and from what I understand the wrt54GL works perfectly with it; is there something I'm missing?
[quote=jp_]hmm...I thought uverse was all about fios, did they merge DSL into it too?[/quote]
From what I understand, u-verse is a broadband internet connection achieved through utilizing DSL lines, although I'm not really sure how it works