I get exactly the same problems on Virgin, two words: Traffic Shaping
Particularly bad on torrrents, nobody else can use the Internet. I normally set up cron jobs. Cheers Steve Sent from my iPhone On 18 Jan 2011, at 09:23, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 17 January 2011 22:38, andres <andre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been looking for this for some time but I think I'm not doing the >> right word search in google. I don't even know how to report it if it's >> a bug... might not even be an OS problem so sorry. >> >> I have an ubuntu netbook 10.04 acer aspire one zg5 (same as AO110 I >> think but with SSD). >> I get yelled at because I am downloading files (podcasts, software, >> distros, ...) this for some reason disconnects my wifi but also all >> other kit that is connected to the router. Then my wifi recovers >> connection and slowly all the other stuff in the house gets connected >> (w7, itouch, internet radio). But if I continue downloading it will >> disconnect everything again. I've been able to see that this happens at >> when I reach a certain download speed. >> >> I use a netgear routher and my broadband is virgin. >> > > When it fails have a look at the leds on the router. Is the Internet > light still lit and is the ADSL light still lit? > > Colin > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/