I actually have Vonage as well, I forgot to mention that. I make sure there are no torrents/Shareaza running in my household unless its after 12AM when everyone is sleeping.
My internet connection is used for more things as time goes by, thats why I like to have a healthy amount of bandwidth... I think its better to have more bandwidth than I may necessarily need for those worst case scenarios. For instance, I noticed that if there is alot of traffic on my network for internet resources, my Vonage sound quality gets really bad.
I am going to look into QoS to see if I can prioritize services so that important things such as Vonage are affected less by bandwidth drains.
Hey all. In my household there are usually three people and sometimes up to five people sharing my connection. If you look at it from my point of view, I really need that extra bandwidth. I currently have Comcast Cable and get 6 megabits down. When multiple people are online, this effectively can go as low as 1.5 megabits or worse depending on what they are doing. Sometimes if the are uploading stuff or using bittorrent, my connection can really lag ass. I have on several occassions disconnected my family members because they start to do something while I am playing a game or doing something important and I lose a lot of speed.
I'll take as much bandwidth as I can get at a reasonable cost (around $50 per month).:)
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I actually have Vonage as well, I forgot to mention that. I make sure there are no torrents/Shareaza running in my household unless its after 12AM when everyone is sleeping. My internet connection is used for more things as time goes by, thats why I like to have a healthy amount of bandwidth... I think its better to have more bandwidth than I may necessarily need for those worst case scenarios. For instance, I noticed that if there is alot of traffic on my network for internet resources, my Vonage sound quality gets really bad. I am going to look into QoS to see if I can prioritize services so that important things such as Vonage are affected less by bandwidth drains.
Hey all. In my household there are usually three people and sometimes up to five people sharing my connection. If you look at it from my point of view, I really need that extra bandwidth. I currently have Comcast Cable and get 6 megabits down. When multiple people are online, this effectively can go as low as 1.5 megabits or worse depending on what they are doing. Sometimes if the are uploading stuff or using bittorrent, my connection can really lag ass. I have on several occassions disconnected my family members because they start to do something while I am playing a game or doing something important and I lose a lot of speed.
:)
I'll take as much bandwidth as I can get at a reasonable cost (around $50 per month).