Internet while downloading.

Downloading anything seems to slow down the internet to where you can't even load a webpage.

For instance, I am trying to download a 700mb movie. On my connection, it should download in about 2 minutes. That's fine, it does that, but when I start the download, everyone in the house including me, can't load anything, the internet becomes basically useless when we are downloading something.

We have a 2wire 2700HGV-B2 router, and we have 2 wired PCs, 3 wireless laptops, and 1 ipod on the system.

Can mean 2 things:
- Downloading at full speed, fills your whole upsteam channel, resulting in slow other things you can do on the internet
- Downloading at full speed, overloads your old router, which can't handle the downstream at the speed, while -also- allowing other connection to come through.