by kahilzinger » 16 November 2011, 00:24
Unrelated but as far as stopping Windows Updates from rebooting your computer, shut off the Windows Update service on your computer in services.msc.
As far as the bandwidth issue, are you wired or wireless? If you are wired, you might want to invest in a fairly decent network switch. If you are using a hub (which are practically not available, anymore), bandwidth is shared and therefore there might be collisions causing communication problems. A network switch eliminates that problem because packets are only sent to the destinations they need to hit.
If you are wireless, you might run into a lot of problems. First of all, wireless is a shared network medium, like an old network hub, which means that everyone on the network gets whatever someone else sent and if someone wants to transmit a packet while the network is busy, it either waits if it knows it is busy or sends the packet, causing a collsion. Think of a room full of people in a meeting. When people are talking, no one else can talk if you want to hear what the people are saying and if it is silent and 2 or more people start talking, they stop and figure out which one will start talking. Also, in wireless, you are in competition with other radio sources. If you have several wireless access points transmitting and receivng on the same channel, you are going to have problems. If your equipment can find a free channel at least 3 channels above and/or below something else, you get better performance. And finaly, things like microwave ovens or other devices that send a lot of radio signals unrelated to network traffic, along with the room, might cause interference.
When I can, I go wired for almost everything. I only use wireless to suplement wired connections in the case of mobility or meeting rooms. I am a network engineer as far as my day job so I should know a little about this. You might put the devices that stay places on wired connections and leave the live mobile for just the wireless. For that reason, I have always hated ad-hoc wireless networks.
Hope it helps.