Amazon Alexas using bandwidth?

[Oliver davies]

I live in rural England and used to have speeds of 5Mbps down and 0.3Mbps up but recently we Purchased 5 amazon Alexas and a hive smart hub (A tech shop was going into liquidation near us). After these were connected to the internet the speed has been unreliable and slow (Now 0.4Mbps down and 0.4Mbps up) so I am wondering if there is any connection or if its just BT being bad.

[Skiiwee29]

They are using some yes. They need to keep connected to the accounts in the cloud so they are pinging away checking and getting updates. 

[Oliver davies]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

They are using some yes. They need to keep connected to the accounts in the cloud so they are pinging away checking and getting updates. 

I thought they may use a bit... But do you think that it would be enough to lower the speed that much?

 

[Skiiwee29]

Just now, Oliver davies said:

I thought they may use a bit... But do you think that it would be enough to lower the speed that much?

 

with all of them plugged in and such the problem you are having is you have no upload speed if you only get 0.3mbps from your ISP. Its using all that between all the devices and your devices etc connected to check for updates etc... 

[Oliver davies]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

with all of them plugged in and such the problem you are having is you have no upload speed if you only get 0.3mbps from your ISP. Its using all that between all the devices and your devices etc connected to check for updates etc... 

Thanks! I guess that I'll just unplug them all when I want to game with reasonable ping...

[unijab]

I enjoy that they increased your upload speed from 0.3 Mbps to 0.4 Mbps.

[brwainer]

2 hours ago, Oliver davies said:

I live in rural England and used to have speeds of 5Mbps down and 0.3Mbps up but recently we Purchased 5 amazon Alexas and a hive smart hub (A tech shop was going into liquidation near us). After these were connected to the internet the speed has been unreliable and slow (Now 0.4Mbps down and 0.4Mbps up) so I am wondering if there is any connection or if its just BT being bad.

For most people I would say that adding some extra smart home devices isn’t going to have a noticable impact on their internet connection, but with your upload being only 0.4Mbps then every device can have an impact - as well as any new software you install on your computer that may run in the background and do something. When you download, your computer has to send acknowledgement packets back to the source to confirm that packets are receieved correctly. If your upload is being heavily utilized (>90%) then it will start to affect the possible download speeds because the acknowledgements can’t be sent fast enough and cause delays in the next packets.

[Oliver davies]

3 hours ago, unijab said:

I enjoy that they increased your upload speed from 0.3 Mbps to 0.4 Mbps.

honestly sometime it can be 0.02 depending on the time of day and weather or not god is happy with me

 

[Oliver davies]

1 hour ago, brwainer said:

For most people I would say that adding some extra smart home devices isn’t going to have a noticable impact on their internet connection, but with your upload being only 0.4Mbps then every device can have an impact - as well as any new software you install on your computer that may run in the background and do something. When you download, your computer has to send acknowledgement packets back to the source to confirm that packets are receieved correctly. If your upload is being heavily utilized (>90%) then it will start to affect the possible download speeds because the acknowledgements can’t be sent fast enough and cause delays in the next packets.

Just a issue with my slow connection then  thanks for the help tho!

[Alex Atkin UK]

Obviously the way to know is remove them, one by one and see if it makes any difference.

I would be very surprised if they were using THAT MUCH bandwidth personally.

 

They might however be slowing down your WiFi if the router isn't that great.  Is this affecting wired clients?