what internet activity causes torrent downloads to slow down?

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

i have a roomate that frequently downloads videos with torrents, and he complains that they are slowing down recently.

is it possible that me watching videos causes his torrents to become slow? what about online gaming? what activities on the internet i should avoid while his torrents are working?

thx in advance, will gift steam points for good answers

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by JolyJew СлаваУкраине:

what internet activity causes torrent downloads to slow down?


i have a roomate that frequently downloads videos with torrents, and he complains that they are slowing down recently.

is it possible that me watching videos causes his torrents to become slow? what about online gaming? what activities on the internet i should avoid while his torrents are working?

thx in advance, will gift steam points for good answers

You should try the Hardware and OS forum.

[Tristin]

Yeah you watching video can slow down other user's network usage. Afterall, you both share the bandwidth.

Same goes for online gaming. If your roommate is using lot of bandwidth, you might want to wait playing online games that require your quick actions.

This is really no brainer question. Are you baiting for something or looking for some non-obivous answers? Are you expecting funny answer, to give points to?

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

Originally posted by Tristin:

Yeah you watching video can slow down other user's network usage. Afterall, you both share the bandwidth.

Same goes for online gaming. If your roommate is using lot of bandwidth, you might want to wait playing online games that require your quick actions.

This is really no brainer question. Are you baiting for something or looking for some non-obivous answers? Are you expecting funny answer, to give points to?

:lunar2019deadpanpig:

no im serious.
watching videos while gaming online never slowed my games down. and i vaguely remember people telling me that online gaming doesn't take up much bandwidth so i need to know for sure how badly it slows my friend's torrents

also, if both our internet usage fight for bandwidth how come i don't feel my online games or videos slowing down when i use them while he is torrenting?

[Kargor]

Originally posted by JolyJew СлаваУкраине:

i have a roomate that frequently downloads videos with torrents, and he complains that they are slowing down recently.

is it possible that me watching videos causes his torrents to become slow? what about online gaming? what activities on the internet i should avoid while his torrents are working?

Of course. His piracy stuff is taking up bandwidth, and that's limited. Your video is taking up bandwidth too, so... he'll get less of it.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by JolyJew СлаваУкраине:

Originally posted by Tristin:

Yeah you watching video can slow down other user's network usage. Afterall, you both share the bandwidth.

Same goes for online gaming. If your roommate is using lot of bandwidth, you might want to wait playing online games that require your quick actions.

This is really no brainer question. Are you baiting for something or looking for some non-obivous answers? Are you expecting funny answer, to give points to?

:lunar2019deadpanpig:

no im serious.
watching videos while gaming online never slowed my games down. and i vaguely remember people telling me that online gaming doesn't take up much bandwidth so i need to know for sure how badly it slows my friend's torrents

also, if both our internet usage fight for bandwidth how come i don't feel my online games or videos slowing down when i use them while he is torrenting?

Chances are, he's being dramatic. Request speed readings with timespamps. Then you can correlate your online activity.

[Tristin]

Originally posted by JolyJew СлаваУкраине:

Originally posted by Tristin:

Yeah you watching video can slow down other user's network usage. Afterall, you both share the bandwidth.

Same goes for online gaming. If your roommate is using lot of bandwidth, you might want to wait playing online games that require your quick actions.

This is really no brainer question. Are you baiting for something or looking for some non-obivous answers? Are you expecting funny answer, to give points to?

no im serious.
watching videos while gaming online never slowed my games down. and i vaguely remember people telling me that online gaming doesn't take up much bandwidth so i need to know for sure how badly it slows my friend's torrents

also, if both our internet usage fight for bandwidth how come i don't feel my online games or videos slowing down when i use them while he is torrenting?

Ok, I get the situation now.

Generally, data packets have priority that router sets. Most routers will likely place video streaming and gaming on higher priority.

This is the reason you may not feel slowdown. Hence your roommate will take the hit on less priority, slowing his/her downloads when you are watching video (unlikely for gaming, like you said doesn't take as much bandwidth).

But taking into account that your roommate is torrenting, it doesn't guarantee high speed for him/her unless there's enough seed and high speed data providing users. So it may not be entirely your fault.
You watching ytube stream whatnot is less likely to be largely impactful.

To speedup your router overall, you want to disable bandwidth load-balancing (I think that's what it was called), as it reserves big chunk of bandwidth so that it can balance bandwidth distribution between users. The amount of chunk it takes may really defeat the purpose tbh. But may be required for network where certain user(s) are uncontrollable of how much bandwidth they eat up (likely your roommate).

Additionally, your roommate torrenting, means high chances of malware attacks to his/her PC and to router, which effects network speed overall.

So to conlcusion,

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Chances are, he's being dramatic.
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[GloriousZote]

A roommate, huh..?

[Electric Cupcake]

If you're not VPN tunneling, the ISP probably will throttle torrent traffic.

Or, the tracker servers might not like you for one reason or another and not let peers connect.

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

Apparently someone needs a lesson and quick tutorial in how torrents work.
Looking up seeders and leechers as well as P2P should do the trick for starters.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

also torrents can slow down when theres lack of active seeders and when seeders have limited their download speeds meaning you can only download their segment of the file by what speed they set, a lot of people running many seeds limit their speeds so their connection remains stable.

because you need to remember when downloading a torrented file, you are not downloading a file from a server but many small segments of the file from other peoples computers.

its very common for download speeds to fluctuate as a result.

[A&A]

It depends:
How fast is your internet
How much do you download
How much he can download per second
How much can all seeders and pears upload per second
What are his specs and does it cause any bottleneck

and so on.

[Adversary]

Originally posted by JolyJew СлаваУкраине:

i have a roomate that frequently downloads videos with torrents, and he complains that they are slowing down recently.

is it possible that me watching videos causes his torrents to become slow? what about online gaming? what activities on the internet i should avoid while his torrents are working?

thx in advance, will gift steam points for good answers

Think of it like moving a couch from one room to another. Typically you're going to have to pick up the couch and tilt it sideways while you're carrying it just to get it through the doorframe.

Any and all online activity will take up a portion of your bandwidth. Doesn't matter whether it's upstream or downstream. If he's seeding, that will also slow things down. If you're doing anything at all whatsoever with the internet, that will also slow things down.

Hell, you could have some schmuck piggybacking on your connection via the WiFi or via some backdoor or possibly a RAT - remote access trojan - , or your ISP could be throttling the connection because you or more likely he is using too much bandwidth or you're unfortunate enough to be using Comcast. In either case that will also slow it down.

Course if you've got a backdoor or a RAT then you've got bigger issues.

[76561198356019466]

I've heard that watching porn does, but I wouldn't know personally.
Some guy that knows a friend of mine said it did.

[Felonious Punk]

Why are you downloading large torrent files?

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

Originally posted by Adversary:

Originally posted by JolyJew СлаваУкраине:

i have a roomate that frequently downloads videos with torrents, and he complains that they are slowing down recently.

is it possible that me watching videos causes his torrents to become slow? what about online gaming? what activities on the internet i should avoid while his torrents are working?

thx in advance, will gift steam points for good answers

Think of it like moving a couch from one room to another. Typically you're going to have to pick up the couch and tilt it sideways while you're carrying it just to get it through the doorframe.

Any and all online activity will take up a portion of your bandwidth. Doesn't matter whether it's upstream or downstream. If he's seeding, that will also slow things down. If you're doing anything at all whatsoever with the internet, that will also slow things down.

Hell, you could have some schmuck piggybacking on your connection via the WiFi or via some backdoor or possibly a RAT - remote access trojan - , or your ISP could be throttling the connection because you or more likely he is using too much bandwidth or you're unfortunate enough to be using Comcast. In either case that will also slow it down.

Course if you've got a backdoor or a RAT then you've got bigger issues.

ok thx.
but how much is different activity affects the bandwidth? is online gaming the same as watching youtube?