Hi everybody

My brother has his desktop connected to the modem WIRED (his computer doesn't have the components to connect wirelessly). I've notice the download speed drops significantly whenever he is on it.

I used speedtest and got about 20.78 mbps down, but when he is home its drops to about 3.0 or even as low as 0.19 mbps down. The upload speeds doesn't seem affected. Also atm(no brother) i am getting full 5 bars, but when that desktop computer is on, it drops to 2 or 3 bars. Sometimes it loses connection completely for a few seconds.

We previously did not have a problem as we connected the [modem to a router], then later we found out that the modem our provider gave was also a router. Now we have a problem

Whats up with that?

I've been wondering this myself. I just hooked my son's computer up to the network with a Linksys N600 wireless adapter and then I proceeded to purchase the Half-Life Complete Bundle off of Steam for him since he asked for it. It took about 2 hours to download Half Life, Half Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode 1 whereas it took me about 6 hours to download those same games on my computer which is hard wired to the network.

It really makes me wonder if having it hooked up to the network with a cable is even worth it. I'd drop another $50 on a second adapter for my computer.

Both are desktops.

Yes it can. I know form first hand experience that this is 100% possible. Spent a few hours on support calls because of it.

The solution was supposedly changing the router to allow for multiple outgoing connections, though because we have "A [censored] & [censored]" (AT&T) I don't know how they went about it because they did it all remotely.

My provider [censored] Rogers, also has complete control over our connection. I don't even think we can change the password without requesting them to do so. They can also control the frequency of modem/ router, etc.

So if i was to call my provider, i should ask them to allow the router for multiple outgoing connections? Or can i do this manually.

Save us Google Fiber ~

I always thought wired (ethernet) connections took priority of the bandwidth.