After almost a year of network / intenet problems I finally got my internal network running uber fast and reliably. Even joined the masses and WiFi'ed the wife. Yes, all secured and hidden.
All of that took using HP Procurve GigE switches and tossing my old router for an expensive MSB class Cisco unit.
One problem remained though. It kind of all worked too well on my cable connection. Uploading to YouTube etc pretty much killed anything else from accessing the web. Even though the web is mostly 'down' you still need to send some data 'up' and that's where the problem arises.
Sooo cFosSpeed to the rescue. I've only installed this on the old laptop I use for uploading and that could be a good thing. It does use a skinned widget which looks very cool as it graphs all the traffic etc but I could see it becoming a PIA if you used the same PC for other things. On the upside this is a pretty intelligent piece of code. It doesn't slow down uploads unless it sees the link performance is dropping from other traffic. A 30 day trial is available. The website is pretty scant on details and TBH I was pretty dubious about this product but figured I'd give it a go on the old laptop and it really does what they claim even though they fail to explain their product very well. Another nice feature is pay once and get free lifetime upgrades. At USD19.90 its pretty reasonably priced and the money does seem to go to a cottage industry.
Bob.
All of that took using HP Procurve GigE switches and tossing my old router for an expensive MSB class Cisco unit.
One problem remained though. It kind of all worked too well on my cable connection. Uploading to YouTube etc pretty much killed anything else from accessing the web. Even though the web is mostly 'down' you still need to send some data 'up' and that's where the problem arises.
Sooo cFosSpeed to the rescue. I've only installed this on the old laptop I use for uploading and that could be a good thing. It does use a skinned widget which looks very cool as it graphs all the traffic etc but I could see it becoming a PIA if you used the same PC for other things. On the upside this is a pretty intelligent piece of code. It doesn't slow down uploads unless it sees the link performance is dropping from other traffic. A 30 day trial is available. The website is pretty scant on details and TBH I was pretty dubious about this product but figured I'd give it a go on the old laptop and it really does what they claim even though they fail to explain their product very well. Another nice feature is pay once and get free lifetime upgrades. At USD19.90 its pretty reasonably priced and the money does seem to go to a cottage industry.
Bob.