Internet connection issue

[Alex C]

Thanks for the help.

So is there anyway for me to make LInux do some sort of background load
balancing? Maybe a setting or something? Granted, I don't fully understand
how that works so I may be asking for the impossible. I guess what I'm
asking is if there is any possible way to make this work a little better so
I can download updates etc...without crippling the connection for everyone
else in the house. Going full Linux isn't an option as I'm the only one with
any sort of interest or desire to run Linux.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Stephen Kuhn <yank.down.under at gmx.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 07:24 -0500, Alex wrote:
> > This may be a stupid question, how what are my NIC settings and how do I
> > access them? I'm not the biggest expert on networking, so I do apologize
> > if this is something I should know.
>
> Right-click the network indicator applet, choose "Edit Connections" -
> locate your connection (whatever it is), edit the settings there.
>
> As you have a mixed environment (MS Windows and whatever), yes, you're
> going to notice a bit of a lag on the other machines; linux, whatever
> version, whatever distro, directly connects and does not, by default,
> really bother with any type of "background load balancing" as does MS
> Windows and MacOS - it's straight forward.
>
> The environment I have here, all linux machines, works like a charm,
> however, when a huge download is in progress, everything slows down -
> that's going to happen regardless. Some OS's "hide" that fact, linux
> does not.
>
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