Swtor Bandwidth Issues

[casecase89]

Hello all, I seem to be having a Networking problem. I have 3 PCS and 2 PS3s hooked up to my home network ( all but my main PC which I play Swtor on are wireless ) and every time I Log into the game and start playing, I lose almost all my connection to my other systems. The speed in which it takes to load a webpage is agonizing, but everything is fine on my main PC while in game or not. If i close the game out, within minutes the speed is restored to my other devices. Does swtor eat up a huge amount of bandwidth or something? I play Wow, generally having at least 2 pcs and 1 ps3 running... and its fine. My net is some 10 megs. Any help? Could it be problems with the router? It works fine with every other game

[maybesew]

I am having the exact same issue. At first I was in denial, but it is night and day when I quit the game. It's driving my wife crazy.

No ideas on how to fix it.

[Deleted]

In theory, SWTOR should not consume more bandwidth than WoW or any other MMO.

Sounds like a traffic-shaping issue.

Try installing CFOS, a custom LAN driver on all of your affected PCs and remember to activate Network Broadcasting during the installation.

Once installed, right-click the little symbol in your taskbar and tell it to "favor ping".

That should alleviate the issue.

However Cfos has a 30 day trial period. After that you need to purchase it (or delete the registry entry and reinstall).

PS: It also helps a lot with managing broadband when using torrents for example.

http://www.cfos.de/en/index.htm

[maybesew]

Thanks for the suggestion Crowe. I actually seemed to have resolved things by enabling QoS on my router. I am limiting the bandwidth on the ports that SWTOR uses, and now my other computers aren't effected, and I don't notice any negative behavior in SWTOR either.

[MtnDewLov3r]

Thanks for the suggestion Crowe. I actually seemed to have resolved things by enabling QoS on my router. I am limiting the bandwidth on the ports that SWTOR uses, and now my other computers aren't effected, and I don't notice any negative behavior in SWTOR either.

Dude I am having the same issues and its horrible, could you PLEASE tell me step by step how you did that?

[Forsedar]

I don't know what it does but yeah, this is happening to me too. I don't care though because I'm really the only one who uses a computer on a daily basis here but when someone chooses to get online- they have a very slow connection speed.