Hi

i am running a cyber cafe with 20 computers running on a DSL Broadband 128kbs connection. My problem is that I seem to be using a lot of bandwidth (up to 126kbs) even when I only have a few clients online.

I have Cisco 1760 Router, a D-Link 128 modem and a Trendnet 24 port switch, and all the PCs are running on Win XP, except 1 which is on Win 2000 What can I do to sort this problem out

HELP!!!!! I still need some help on this issue. P L E A S E!!!!!

Originally Posted by Chris kandaba

HELP!!!!! I still need some help on this issue. P L E A S E!!!!!

If someone here had an answer for you they would have replied by now, sorry but I know nothing about running an Internet Cafe. Please keep in mind this is a free forum, 100 % free unless you opt for premium supprot. The people who help here have real lives, real jobs & other commitments. No one here receives any compensation for answsering questions.

try unpluging the computers one at a time like 1 computer a day and moniter the bandwidth that will tell u which computer it is

Chris,

Surely that's completely normal?

If you had one PC connected to a 128Kbps line, you would expect it to try and use up to 128kbps.

If you had two computers running through a router, the bandwidth over the whole network would be still be up to 128kbps but that wouldn't limit each PC to 64kbps each - if one user was just reading a web page, they wouldn't be using any so, if the other user was downloading a file, they would be using the full 128kbps at that time. Then, if the first user clicks a link to load another web page, then the router will share the bandwidth between them until the page has finished loading .... and then give the full 128kbps back to the second user who was downloading a file.

That theory continues regardless of how many PCs are connected, although you'll get a very slight decrease in available bandwidth to each one just because some web site will be refreshing adverts on a screen, etc even if the user is spending 10 minutes just reading a page. I have a 1Mbps line at the office with about 25 users. Even if all of them were browsing the Internet, I could still see the full 1Mbps transfer speed on my PC as long as the other users weren't downloading anything at the same time.

Hope that helps

Hi DJ Nafey and Kingneo

Thanks for the response. .... While I understand your answer, I think I may not have asked my question properly. Ordinarily if I have 2 or 3 computers online and they are maybe checking email, the bandwidth usage will only be around 19000 bits/sec, when I get to 15 pcs suddenly I'm up to 125000 bits/sec. And this is with people simply sending or reading mail. This puzzled me for a while, but I think I have sorted out the problem,
people were down loading very big files while browsing. Once we configured the Router to telnet, we have been able to monitor the computers and see which ones is sending out a lot of packets and as such are now able to monitor and control big downloads. Once we shut the downloads the broadband normally drops and the speed picks again.

While this may not be the right forum to discuss the following, I think I should talk about the response I received from "Bear" on the above subject. I realise that this is a free forum and people who answer our queries do it free of charge and have "there own lives to live" and all that, but I don't think I did anything wrong by requesting for more assistance the way I did, and I didn't deserve the answer I got, which I feel was rude to say the least and totally out of the spirit of this forum.

"Bear" if you read this, you will see that my presistance to get an answer finally worked out. Lets polite and courteous to one another.

Chris,

Forums are terrible for getting comments and replies out of context - tones and facial expressions, which you don't get on a forum, are an important part of the way that we communicate. You were right to give your question a "bump" after 4 weeks.

Thanks for your feedback and it's good to hear that you have got your bandwidth issue sorted out