Timeline for Why would network traffic on one computer affect the speed of another?
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| Dec 14, 2011 at 17:20 | comment | added | Tevo D | Do the activity lights on the router give any indication of activity on the desktop's port? Also, brand/mode may help with identifying the type of hardware. | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 16:49 | comment | added | Diogo | I don't know if you can see the "unwanted" trafic from your desktop with a sniffer, I mean, as far i know, the ethernet frames are discarted on your ethernet adapter(phisical OSI layer). However, you could try to install a sniffer(such as Wireshark) and analyze if you are receiving frames that dont maches with your ethernet MAC. Another and easyer way to test is using a switch(insted your hub) and check if the same problem happend again. | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 16:44 | comment | added | Jason | Is there a way I could detect this situation? | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 16:21 | history | answered | Diogo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |