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Help! Major lag when others use iTunes!

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October 6, 2014 6:01:27 PM

I appreciate you taking the time to read this so when I use my pc I always get bad connection when my brother and sister watch vines, YouTube, or Netflix. Is there anyway to fix this cause when they're not around my internet is blazing fast and I can download 25gb files in 39 minutes.whenever I play my games it says bad connection and I lag out and I have an excellent wireless network adaptor too so I don't know what to do. All help is appreciated!
Ps I was looking into a network repeater that plugs into the wall

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October 6, 2014 6:05:13 PM

So are they using your pc or something else for the internet??

Obviously if its another PC they'll be using part of the data you're using. And it can and will slow thing down. Cant do much about it. Like you said its fine when theyre not there
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October 6, 2014 6:07:46 PM

They use theirs iPads while browsing the web or multimedia and the PS3 or wii for netflex, but would a network repeater help out cause our wifi plan is pretty solid just sucks when there is a lot of streaming going on
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October 6, 2014 6:10:27 PM

Has nothing to do with the plan. It's how many are using it at the time. The more there are the less each person will get
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October 7, 2014 5:58:48 AM

A repeater will likely make the issue much worse if it is a wireless issue.

Step 1. Connect your PC to the router with a cable just as a test. If you still have issues then the problem is not in the wireless you are out of internet capacity and the only way to fix it is to buy a larger internet connection from your ISP.

It is highly likely you will find it is a capacity issue on your ISP, the wireless speed is many times larger and tends to not be the bottleneck.

If it works fine on the wired connection then you pretty much must find a way to get your own wireless bandwidth. The easiest way is if you have a dual band router to rig the security on the router to only allow your machine to use say the 5g radio. You of course could add another radio just for you. This would be a AP and not a repeater though. You would still have to find a non conflicting radio channel and these are getting hard to find with all the neighbors also using wireless.
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