Here is something strange I have noticed on my home setup. My sons computer is on the network and both out mcahines are plugged into a BIllion 4 port/ADSL modem. I have a 1.5m ADSL connection with internode.

Now here is the wierd thing I have noticed. When the sons computer is off and I am on the net, speeds are fine ect...but some web pages take , say a second or so to load. But gaming and surfing performance is fine.. BUT when my sons computer is also on and connected to the net (he is either playing an online game or checking out web sites ect.) I have noticed that the Speed of my web surfing experience seems to be TWICE as fast??

Im not imagining it either I have shown it to the wife and when I hit overseas sites and the page and content loads almost instantaneously she reckons you can 'see' that performance is much much faster.?

So anyone know why having another computer active on a port on the Billion seems to be significantly increasing the web surfing performance of another computer on another port on the modem??

Its very wierd.

Wierd alright. I think the first thing I'd do is compare the network settings on both machines. Then it might be an idea to plug your pc into the same port your son's pc uses and see if it does anything. Try running one of "speed-tests" floating around the net so you can gauge just how fast (or slow) its going when various things change.

yeah i'd say off the top of my head its port/ip related?

id say, your router/modem thingy might be having problems.

i dont trust anything that is a router and a modem.

i dont trust anything that is a router and a modem.

uh... riiight...

download something big with your son playing games, compare it to when his computer is off

if there's no increase in transfer rate i'd be looking at dns

(edit: which is pretty much what sikgem said, but i reckon its dns )

last edited by partyhat at 12:26:01 16/Oct/04

Well I finally got to the bottom of this crazy behaviour I was having. I was trolling thru the whirpool forums and saw a post by a guy just wanting to know how to set up his Billion 714 modem with Internode.

Another guy posted that he should put the modems IP in the default gateway setting in the Nic cards properties as well as setting the modems IP address (the one you use for web configuration) in the preferred DNS setting for the nic, not the modem/router setup.

Well I had tried everything putting in Nodes primary and secondary dns settings, enabling Upnp in the router, Billion support couldnt help neither could Internode, we were all stumped. So I gave it a try and whala!..fixed!..my web surfing speed is brilliant no pauses ect..pages and sites load really really fast. Wether my son is online or not now she's flying.

Im guessing that while my boy was online the effect was the same, the router had been detected as the default gateway and thats why my surfing speed seemed to increase three fold ect..when he was offline I was getting pauses while it detected the address.?

Whatever, the suggested entries has defineatley fixed the behaviour. I love the whirpool forums..so many helpful people.

I love the whirpool forums..so many helpful people.

oh its just like qgl and ocau init!

its funny, alot of ppl on whirlpool probably get really sick of answering ppls questions about isps and speeds.etc which are posted everyday, which were posted the day before and day before by someone else

but the relevence of that paragraph to this thread was almost nil

Another guy posted that he should put the modems IP in the default gateway setting in the Nic cards properties as well as setting the modems IP address (the one you use for web configuration) in the preferred DNS setting for the nic, not the modem/router setup.

Sorry I'm lost there...

so dns entries for the pcs = modem ip and any from the isp

but you don't put those in the modem?

HI ya box. I had put the primary and secondary DNS address supplied to me by internode into the modems config...no change. I had trying them in the nic cards configuration...no change. But when i put the modems IP address in the default gateway and primary preferred dns address in the nic cards config the problem disappeared and browsing is soo much faster its not funny.

So instead of having obtain DNS server address automatically I have it using the modems IP as the preferred.

ahhhhhh okies that is making sense now thank you!