myspace scrolling

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Tun3LR4T, Jun 18, 2006.

  1. Tun3LR4T

    Tun3LR4T Private E-2

    Hi, a lttle new to this forum so bear with me. My problem involves myspace scrolling causing major packet loss on other machines on the LAN. I know, I know, this is impossible and that is what I told the kids but then they showed me and it is true. Say I'm playing my favorite game on my puter and my daughter is on myspace. Everything is fine and until she starts scrolling real fast on Myspace. Then I get MAJOR lag in my game untill she stops scrolling. Once she found out about this she loves to torture her brothers with it. Causes major fights. lol:mad: :) We are using a standard linksys wired router with 3 puters hooked up and a wireless gateway hooked to the other port. Any ideas on what's causing this and is it possible to say isolate one puter so it does affect the others on the LAN and still be safe. I don't normally run a software firewall, just turn it on every now and thing to check outbound. We mostly play FPS like Wolf and CS, but it also affects the RPG games they play.:rolleyes:
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    All your computers are sharing the connection ...when one demands more broadband width, the others recieve less ....esp. so with wireless (which runs at about 1/2 of the wired.)
     
  3. Tun3LR4T

    Tun3LR4T Private E-2

    Yes of course, but why would scrolling a myspace page bleed so much bandwidth and how does one stop this??
    We have run three FPS games @ once with nary a blip in the ping, even on the same server. But, she scrollls a page and crashes the game on another puter?:confused: Is there some setting in Firefox to allow multiple connections when downloading a page?? Maybe if I turn that off??:)
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Myspace can have a huge amount of info and graphics and videos on a single page ..so fast scrolling will require a large amount of bandwidth to accomodate the paging files ....it sucks up your internet connection ....try playing three games with out the myspace and you probably will have no problems ...or talk to your isp about increasing your bandwidth.
     

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