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Teyras

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Registered: 2010-07-14

Posts: 56

File uploads block network

Greetings,
I've found that when I upload larger files (~5MB), every machine in my network is unable to load even a simple webpage and ping latency goes from ~17ms to ~400ms. This occurs when uploading from any of the three machines with different configurations, but not when I upload from windows. Unfortunately, I don't know what other relevant information I could give, except it started to happen approximately in january this year...
Is there any explanation for the fact that this doesn't happen on win?
Thanks for any advice

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: File uploads block network

If you're saturating your uplink, you would get behaviour similar to that described. Myabe the Windows box has an upload bandwidth limit configured? (That's as far as I can go on that subject, no WIndows here).

Anyway, try limiting the upload bandwidth from the other machines - probably best done centrally on your router, if it has that capability, otherwise on each machine.

Teyras

Member

Registered: 2010-07-14

Posts: 56

Re: File uploads block network

Well, the windows box is an almost vanilla XP instalation, so it would have to have such configuration by default...