Hi smart people,

If I have several computers on my home network and I have not set any explicit QoS rules on my router, how is bandwidth allocated? For example, if computer 1 is downloading a torrent at max speed and a second computer starts a download, how is the bandwidth allocation between the two determined? Thanks!

  • zzzz@lemmy.worldOP
    51·
    11 months ago

    Yes, I think this must be it. Computer 1 was wifi while computer 2 was wired.

    • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Yeah. Wifi has more latency than switched ethernet on average (and really bad worst case latency since it is a shared medium, subject to neighboring RF interference that might not even be from the network, and radios try to handle retransmits on their own).