How can i limit bandwidth to the people using my router?

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toxin813

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I live with myself & 2 room mates sharing a cable connection through a D-Link DI-604 router. Because of a rediculous amount of porn downloads, i cant even play online video games anymore. I tried talking to the guy who is mostly responsible, but he doesnt play games and obviously doesnt care that i ping 300+ on servers where i should be getting ~50ms..

How can i go about putting a limit on how much bandwidth he gets? Software of some kind? Settings with the router itself? Im almost ready to unplug his ethernet cable and tell him to get his own connection.
 
If you set up a Linux/BSD box to do your routing, you can do QOS on it so that he gets all his speed *and* you get your low pings. The secret is buffering. The modem has a buffer in it, and whatever gets put in has to wait for its turn. So right now the packets from your game get in line behind the huge packets from the download he's running. What QOS does is to give priority to certain packets, and keep the buffer empty by only sending a packet to the modem when its queue is empty.

We use this at home, and it's difficult to tell whether a download is going on or not when I'm running an ssh connection. I'd say that's an even more latency-sensitive application than playing games, but I'm sure someone would disagree ;)
 
Its not as easy as it seems, or maybe I have bad hardware. I cant get my linux server to talk to the internet either, using XP home SP2. I ran the networking wizard...

Its strange. I can figure out all by myself how to share internet through linux (no GUI) but I cant do it in windows.
 
I dont have a DLink router, but I know that my linksys WRT54G has a big section of QOS in it. You can control a lot of things from in there including time of day certain users can access the web.
 
l337zax said:
I dont have a DLink router, but I know that my linksys WRT54G has a big section of QOS in it. You can control a lot of things from in there including time of day certain users can access the web.
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Yeah, my WRT54G with sveasoft firmware has a bandwidth limiting section.

As far as the OP, either use linux or get a different router with a limiting feature.
 
toxin813 said:
That program wont install, gives me tons of errors, but since its not in english i dont even know what they mean.

Anyone else have a solution that doesnt involve a linux box?
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It installs, works, is in english, and doneesn't require a linux box. :0
 
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