What is this Warning?

cheekymole

Warning! Insufficient bandwidth.
other applications currently occupy the USB Bandwidth. Please close all other applications, then remove the other USB devices.

Can anyone help. My friend is on Tiscali Broadband but can never get ont the net due to the above message. She only has a printer connected to the USB and we can't understand why this keeps happening

I'm sure that you techies can sort us out. TIA

Fran

Is it a wireless connection? Has she got it secured if it is?

Samba_Pa_Ti

it could be that the printer/usb modem are fighting for the bandwidth, you could prove this by unplugging the printer.

if you only have 2 usb ports the only way round it will be to buy a usb2 pci card (or a hub, cards are better though).
if there is another set of sockets on the Pc maybe you could plug the modem into that, if its on a different controller it wont have any bandwidth being used.

you can check about the usb hubs in the device manager (in the control panel), heres a screenshot of mine. http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/1864/untitled2iu.jpg

cheekymole

Thanks Fran and Samba

We have tried disconnecting the printer and plugging the modem into a different USB but with no joy.
It is not a wireless connection either.

This has been doing my head in for weeks now. Could it be anything to do with phone lines or am I just clutching at straws?

Fifer

Is the modem a Sagem? That appears to be a common problem with Tiscali. If the modem was supplied by them, get them to replace it. More here and here. She might want to borrow another modem from someone just to prove this.

cheekymole

Thanks Fifer, looks interesting will have a go at all the solutions later