GUIMiner and Home Network lag... driving kids and wifey nutz!

[pulp]

Hi fellahs,

Really love this proggy and everything works great on MY end but.... the wife and 2 kids are not happy.   The kids' ping while gaming and the wife streaming video on the iPad suffers GREATLY, to useless at times. From reading around.... this shouldn't really be happening; low bandwidth, not an unusual amount of connections etc...  

Do you also have problems on your network while running GUIMiner, if so, is there a solution?  

WIN7
Intel Core i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz
ATI Radeon HD 5770 Series
DIR-655 Router
50Mbps/1Mbps solid cable line

Kids - wireless WIN7 PC's
Wifey - iPad

[John (John K.)]

No. You can try using cgminer + stratum though, they take up a miniscule amount of the network traffic, unless you're still running on dial-up.

[pulp]

It says I am using stratum.... I believe! 

Listener for "pulp": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 19/12/2012 01:49:06, checking for stratum...
Listener for "pulp": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 19/12/2012 01:49:07, diverted to stratum on api-stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

Thanks for replying.