big help needed with usb phone, USB bandwidth troubles

A:I

Hey guys. Well i gota "Funky USB VoIP Internet Phone" from maplins today. I have installed skype and thats works ok. SO i plugged in the phone, and the "New hardware wizard" popped up as usual so i installed automaticly. After it said "It's done correctly and ready to use" It came up saying somethings about it has requested 15% bandwidth and i ahven't got that much to spare. It advised me to unplug so usb things, but i only have the modem, printer, external HDD and VoIP phone plugged in, so only two on them use bandwidth.

It pops up with a little window with the devices using the bandwidth and the % it uses. I'll post up a scrennie in a min. But this is really confusing me and i wanna get it fixed so i can use my new phone :P Please help

espresso

A:I wrote: »

After it said "It's done correctly and ready to use" It came up saying somethings about it has requested 15% bandwidth and i ahven't got that much to spare.

How do you expect it to work then, if it can't have some of your bandwidth?


It advised me to unplug so usb things, but i only have the modem, printer, external HDD and VoIP phone plugged in, so only two on them use bandwidth.

Go on then which two?

It pops up with a little window with the devices using the bandwidth and the % it uses. I'll post up a scrennie in a min. But this is really confusing me and i wanna get it fixed so i can use my new phone :P Please help

Your new phone needs some bandwidth to work.

Conor_3

A:I wrote: »

Hey guys. Well i gota "Funky USB VoIP Internet Phone" from maplins today. I have installed skype and thats works ok. SO i plugged in the phone, and the "New hardware wizard" popped up as usual so i installed automaticly. After it said "It's done correctly and ready to use" It came up saying somethings about it has requested 15% bandwidth and i ahven't got that much to spare. It advised me to unplug so usb things, but i only have the modem, printer, external HDD and VoIP phone plugged in, so only two on them use bandwidth.

It pops up with a little window with the devices using the bandwidth and the % it uses. I'll post up a scrennie in a min. But this is really confusing me and i wanna get it fixed so i can use my new phone :P Please help

Are you sure it's not network bandwidth, i.e the connection to the internet? I bet it's that and you're doing downloading or whatever.

A:I

Ok so here are screenies.


Please help :P
And ty to the replies already.

espresso

Read the Recommendation given. Do you really need your external hard drive and printer plugged in all of the time?

A:I

this is with them unplugged. I only have the modem and phone plugged in.

espresso

Did you refresh after unplugging the other devices?

Conor_3

You need to plug the phone into another USB port on a different channel to the one the USB Modem is using. If you've front panel USB connectors, try using them.