Dave Torkington wrote:
Last night I took readings of my CPU load and Wifi with the following results. There's a definite 'spike' in Sending data which, when I compared with my buddies was excessive [On average there's was 1.8Mbps and mine was 3.4Mbs]. I'm not 100% but it seems that a spike in my Sending Data somehow affects my connection so that the data feed is zero. So, JoinFS falls over as does Teamspeak. It then takes between a few seconds and 20 seconds to restart my connection.
It's definitely worth investigating that further. That's a lot of data to be sending and neither JoinFS or Teamspeak should be sending that amount.
Firstly, Wifi isn't an ideal medium for this kind of thing. Have you considered the powerline adapters that a lot of people use? Myself included. Basically it's a little device that you plug into any power socket in your home. It has standard network cable sockets. Using two or more adapters, you plug one in near your router and others near your computers/devices. Attach your network cables and you have a home network set up.
To investigate what is using that much bandwidth, I would suggest seeing if it happens with JoinFS and Teamspeak both closed to see if another application is doing it.
If the network usage stops when you close JoinFS, then can you have a look at both the aircraft and objects views and see if you have anything, other than your own aircraft, with broadcast enabled. Perhaps you have a lot of objects getting broadcasted?
If the network usage is still high with JoinFS closed, open a DOS prompt and type 'netstat -b'. This will show you which processes currently have open connections.
Finally, to be on the safe side I would also run a virus scanner just to check the system out.
Peter