Broken Hub?

[Brennan Price]

Hello, I have a hub from Technicolour (Company) but it keeps breaking in a certain way as I will explain below;

 

-So it does this a lot, it has very low upload speeds of 0.75mbps roughly and a download speed of about 4mbps. These speeds cannot cope with watching streams with eg my pc or xbox one on at all. However the range is excellent.

 

-It completely disconnects any device connected to it when it cannot cope (I think) for some reason.

 

-Whenever Utility WareHouse (who run the internet service) fix it from this to brand new whatever it is, the hub changes from really good mbps then to the figures I stated before over a few days but increases connection range quite a bit.

 

If this does not make sense then contact me on it. PLEASE HELP!!! (It has gone on for nearly a year without rest!!)

[Mastorbinho69]

get a switch , isnt a hub kindove outdated?

[Brennan Price]

Well, I'm only 14 years old so my limitations are quite big. Therefore this option is out of the question really. Cheers anyway.

[Brennan Price]

The more devices you connect to a hub, the slower it gets. Hubs are really outdated and have been replaced by switches.

Really? I thought most families use hubs not switches. Anyway I dont think a hub should slow down when only two devices are connected to it, Or even turn itself off with that little use for that matter.

[Brennan Price]

Every consumer grade router that I've heard of has a switch built in, but it kinda sounds like the hub isn't the problem. Try just connecting straight to the router.

As in ethernet? My phone, tablet, PC, Xbox one, Xbox 360 etc cannot do this as we cannot put everything into one room.

[Brennan Price]

Another thing to add is that even if I plug my Laptop into my hub through ethernet, I would still get no connection/internet output at all.

[Brennan Price]

By hub do you mean something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122005&cm_re=ethernet_hub-_-33-122-005-_-Product

 

Or is it the modem/router that your ISP provides?

I think it is the Modem/Router that my ISP Provides.

 

Note: I may know a lot about computers but I do not know much about networking so some of this may be new to me.

[Brennan Price]

I pay for standard line rental so that would be let me check... 16MB

[vikar]

16MB is not that fast and can be used up fairly quickly when a lot of devices are on the network. If I am working at my fiances house (15MB), I usually have to wait until everybody is off the network for me to do anything productive. Her parents only are on Facebook and it manages to bring the network to a screeching halt. Although this is a limiting factor, I would suggest taking as much off the network as possible to focus on 1 or 2 devices running at a time. Regardless of whether or not you are hardwired or connected through Wi-Fi, you only have so much bandwidth to work with. Your ethernet should yield a more consistent connection, yes, but you will continually have issues unless you update the available bandwidth from your ISP. Take everything but 1 device off the network, then run a speedtest and see what you pull. 

[Brennan Price]

16MB is not that fast and can be used up fairly quickly when a lot of devices are on the network. If I am working at my fiances house (15MB), I usually have to wait until everybody is off the network for me to do anything productive. Her parents only are on Facebook and it manages to bring the network to a screeching halt. Although this is a limiting factor, I would suggest taking as much off the network as possible to focus on 1 or 2 devices running at a time. Regardless of whether or not you are hardwired or connected through Wi-Fi, you only have so much bandwidth to work with. Your ethernet should yield a more consistent connection, yes, but you will continually have issues unless you update the available bandwidth from your ISP. Take everything but 1 device off the network, then run a speedtest and see what you pull. 

Cheers, I could try this but I have already tried having only two devices on the network at the same time. Even if I have only my PC connected to my router, I still dont get anywhere near my 16mbps. It really annoys me.

[Brennan Price]

BTW, I just tested my connection with a speed test and got 7.33mb download and only 0.60mb upload and sadly my ping is 87ms. It my best so far but I will check when my brother is off the Xbox one and so on.

[vikar]

You need to realize that the 16MB is going to be split between those devices. 7.33 x 2 = 14.66 which is closer to the 16 you pay for. The more devices, the less that is available to you. Your ping is related to distance to the server itself. Your ping tells you the amount of time it takes to send the signal and receive it back. There are ways to lock specific devices into bandwidth limiters. Setting IP's to be static rather than DHCP, then using a program to limit MB per IP. But you would need outside programs to do so, but I did this for a project in college.

[Brennan Price]

You need to realize that the 16MB is going to be split between those devices. 7.33 x 2 = 14.66 which is closer to the 16 you pay for. The more devices, the less that is available to you. Your ping is related to distance to the server itself. Your ping tells you the amount of time it takes to send the signal and receive it back. There are ways to lock specific devices into bandwidth limiters. Setting IP's to be static rather than DHCP, then using a program to limit MB per IP. But you would need outside programs to do so, but I did this for a project in college.

Yeah, I understand the fact that it is split but I need to check what my mbps is when no other devices are on.