Why Does Uploading Destroy My Download Speeds

Limiting my uploads then information technology doesn't kill my downloads...

• Thread starter Kelemvor
• First date Nov 27, 2016

• #one

Howdy,

I have net that is 15 Meg down and ane Meg up. (Time Warner). When my phone is set to upload a video to Youtube, it completely kills my cyberspace because I assume it'due south maxing out my upstream connection and killing everything else forth with it.

I wanted to come across if I tin limit the speed simply I can't find any way to do that from the phone itself and then I'thou looking at limiting it in my Asus router.

The router only lets me set up a limit in "Mb/s".
Speedtest.net shows me at 15Mbps and 1Mbps.

So, I'm looking for a practiced speed to set for my phone and so that it won't inundation the connexion. Would setting it to 0.5 Mbps exist a proficient starting point since information technology's only one-half of my max? I don't know how the upload messes with the download exactly to know what's best to use.

Whatever opinions would be groovy.

Thanks.

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• #2

Well, you'd desire to limit per-connection, if you just flatly prepare the upload limit to .5Mb/s, that would basically hateful your router would be throttling upload instead of your Internet service provider. Now having said that, throttling upload at your router *should* prevent it throttling your download speed, so generic browsing and stuff should be much snappier with that setting. Just of grade, bear in mind it'll take twice as long to upload something.

I've personally establish even 80%-90% upload limit to be sufficient to prevent download speeds from shitting the bed upon trying to upload something. It's probably just TCP handshakes that get queued up which crusade the DL speeds to drop, and that needs very little bandwidth.

• #3

I can set the limit per device in my router. For now I selected my phone and fix information technology to the .v. I had originally set it to .1 but that simply took forever to do anything. I'll give information technology a scrap and see how it goes.

Thank you.

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• #4

Why non but queue up upload and start batch upload when you go to bed?

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• #7

Ii things I would bank check/exam.

1. QOS upload settings on your router. Near QOS is download, not many have upload QOS, but if you practice, set information technology to 80% of your upload speed. Yes, fourscore%. Start there. Adjust upwards until internet is slow once again. conform down if it'due south still wearisome. Across 50% the issue is something else.

2. Your phone is WiFi. It's could exist flooding your WiFi. Perhaps your wired connections are still fine. Try that off your laptop/computer. Also if your router is dual ring 2.4G and five.0G. Your WiFi radio divides information technology'southward attention between your devices, so set up your telephone on the frequency that is used less. Off Android you practise this in the WiFi settings.

Best of luck.

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• #8

It's frustrating that Apple routers have no QoS setting, because their devices are near notorious for upload saturation (iCloud backup and iCloud Photo Library). From what I tin can tell, Arris cablevision modems with built-in routers don't take QoS either. Not sure about the SurfBoard modems since they are from a completely dissimilar team of engineers (formerly Motorola), just I don't remember always seeing a QoS setting in those either.

Saturated upload kills Cyberspace for everything else on the domicile network because you can't even send a request to download something.

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• #9

2. Your phone is WiFi. Information technology'southward could be flooding your WiFi. Peradventure your wired connections are still fine. Endeavour that off your laptop/computer. Also if your router is dual band 2.4G and v.0G. Your WiFi radio divides information technology's attention between your devices, then set your telephone on the frequency that is used less. Off Android you do this in the WiFi settings.

Do they make dual-band routers, that are not simultaneous?

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• #10

Do they make dual-ring routers, that are not simultaneous?

For a while at that place. And yes, I've seen philharmonic modems that forcefulness you lot to cull between 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz instead of running two simultaneously.

• #11

This is kind of old but...I seriously doubt your unmarried connection to youtube which is well known for its shiet tier speeds, is killing your download. What could be killing your download is a crappy router. Those $49 suckers get speeds effected by the phases of the moon, I tell ya. You got a model number?

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• #12

This is kind of onetime simply...I seriously doubt your unmarried connexion to youtube which is well known for its shiet tier speeds, is killing your download. What could be killing your download is a crappy router. Those $49 suckers become speeds effected by the phases of the moon, I tell ya. Y'all got a model number?

Fifty-fifty 6mbps upload gets routinely saturated in my experience. Dropbox, YouTube uploads, iCloud Photograph Library, iCloud Backup, ...

Yes. It kills the Internet for everything on the LAN when i device hogs all the upload.

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• #thirteen

Even 6mbps upload gets routinely saturated in my experience. Dropbox, YouTube uploads, iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Backup, ...

Yes. It kills the Internet for everything on the LAN when i device hogs all the upload.

Information technology could be Windows ten updates. I had a similar problem, where my cyberspace radio streaming would get interrupted, when my Win10 boxes would update themselves. Something to do with the peer-to-peer updating, and my limited upstream speeds. This, while using a Mifi hotspot. Doesn't happen with my FIOS. I have yet to run into if it happens with my new Comcast connection, that's 10/1.

• #14

Even 6mbps upload gets routinely saturated in my experience. Dropbox, YouTube uploads, iCloud Photograph Library, iCloud Fill-in, ...

Yes. Information technology kills the Internet for everything on the LAN when ane device hogs all the upload.

Again you must be living right adjacent to those backup services.. or no 1 uses them... but youtube? Youtube servers by and large blow goats, if i ask for anything more than 1080p streams it becomes a no go. My youtube 360 vr experiences is the pits because I can NEVER stream those 2k and 4k streams needed for it. And if I always max out my download then it is with multiple streams, never one stream.

This could besides be the cable modem involved..althought it would need to be pretty quondam. Just I have experience with older cable modems that had it rough with high upload speeds.

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• #15

Use pfsense or sophos to setup bandwidth limiter.

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• #16

I was experimenting with my Comcast 10/1 connection, and I installed a TP-Link C20i AC750 router. (Now discontinued, I think. Got a few of them on ebay.)

At first, I just configured the LAN IP / DHCP range, and ready the ii.4Ghz / 5Ghz SSIDs and passwords. Information technology defaults to hardware NAT. (Which seems kind of strange, it but has x/100 ethernet ports. Surely, the CPU should be able to road that?)

But Skype on Win10 64-scrap kept freezing upwardly on me, on the video window. So I enabled "Bandwidth limiter" (Or "bandwidth control", I forget), and set my connection's limits, and then created a rule for the unabridged DHCP range, and set limits, min 20% connection speed, max xc% connection speed.

Then everything worked better, although there might have been more latency browsing, and downloading ISOs didn't seem to reach my specified max download bandwidth.

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