Help for bandwidth sucker?

antipunt1

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Sorry, I know this isn't necessarily much of a 'hardware question'. However, given the expertise of many users here, I just have a feeling that this'd be a very easy question for someone to just 'knock off' for me.

My father uses a program that connects to some Asia-TV thing. Problem is that it sucks MAJOR BANDWIDTH. I don't really understand how it works, but just imagine this. When he uses the program my brother and I start loading normal webpages very slowly on our 5.2 connection.

My brother has been yelling at him like crazy because he plays Wow and experiences extreme lag spikes. (My dad upgraded to 5.2 from 2.2 recently). it STILL lags up everyone else.

The only thing that comes to mind is if someone has a quick link to a 'download limiter' maybe? I don't even know if IT EXISTS. But my best guess as to a solution to this problem so far is a miracle program that can limit his program so it doesn't kill the rest of us.
The absolute last resort my dad said he'd go to is to get another DSL line altogether (geez he really loves that program), but that'd cost way too much IMO.

Thx for the help :p
 
Asia-TV.. more than likely CCTV which is the only tv broadcast from china... :)

to limit bandwidth, you will need a firewall with throttling on it on a MAC basis.
 
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