I got a Wireless Linksys Router serving as my houses WLAN setup they I created myself. I use wireless but one of my roomate is connected via 100mbps copper directly to the router and constantly is hogging the bandwidth with his bitTorrents. Is it possible to go into my network setup in the router and limit his bandwidth?

I am getting tired of it feeling like i am on a 56 k

9/4/2008 7:05:55 PM

if your router supports QoS, or bandwidth caps by IP you can.

otherwise you need to get a router that does.

9/4/2008 7:14:29 PM

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"QoS"

depending on the model of linksys router you have, slap dd-wrt or tomato on there

9/4/2008 7:57:23 PM

^ second that

9/4/2008 8:53:50 PM

My brother just asked me this yesterday. I said DD-WRT.

9/4/2008 8:57:04 PM

Tomato or dig up a p3/128MB ram and slap pfSense on it.

[Edited on September 4, 2008 at 8:59 PM. Reason : .]

9/4/2008 8:58:10 PM

I have dd-wrt. what makes tomato better? i always like trying new stuff out

9/4/2008 9:05:23 PM

Just have him cap his upload speed in his torrent app to 1/2 to 2/3 of your max upload. That way his torrents still blaze while you can surf the web without issue.

9/4/2008 10:05:57 PM

tomato FTW

9/4/2008 10:55:03 PM

^^yes, but this way you can do it without him having control over it. also, capping upload speed (while helping somewhat) won't fix the problem - the majority of the data when you surf is incoming, not outgoing. the only things going out of your system are the GETs to the http server, the tcp acks, and dns queries (plus a few other things).

joe#s: tomato is cleaner and has more robust reporting/logging/graphing facilities. i've tried them both and like them both pretty much equally.

personally, i run pfSense on a p3 800mhz box w/ 512mb of ram and 3 dual-port intel gigabit server nics with a cisco aironet a/b/g card to serve a wireless ap. it's fast, works perfectly, powerful, and stable... i love it.

[Edited on September 4, 2008 at 11:05 PM. Reason : .]

9/4/2008 11:02:12 PM

exactly

and if you dont say anything, he'll never know

especially if you control bandwidth based on the service

9/4/2008 11:03:15 PM

^^ Typically though people have download bw to spare, but their upload is maxxed, and this is what causes the slowdowns, because the requests struggle to get through.

9/4/2008 11:36:19 PM

also, the number of connections your client is set to make is a major factor. I get often triple speeds by limiting the number of connections to ~25-40 and capping upload to 25k/s

9/5/2008 8:29:27 AM

I haven't ran pfSense in years. Have they released anything groundbreaking since 1.0 RC x

9/5/2008 9:17:23 AM

Quote :

"I got a Wireless Linksys Router serving as my houses WLAN setup they I created myself. I use wireless but one of my roomate is connected via 100mbps copper directly to the router and constantly is hogging the bandwidth with his bitTorrents. Is it possible to go into my network setup in the router and limit his bandwidth?"

its probably not even the bandwidth thats killing it. He probably has so many connections per seed that its killing the router. If he cuts back his open connections he'll still get good bandwidth and your router won't feel like its taking a dump.

9/5/2008 5:51:58 PM

You could always tell him that if he keeps making the network unuseable for you that he'll have to get his own damn ISP. I mean I'm assuming you've asked him to limit the number of simultaneous connections and to limit the incoming and outgoing bandwidth use. Sure you could install DD-WRT and force him to be considerate, but if someone's not willing to be basically considerate why should you have to do work to keep them from hogging shit? Scissors+ethernet cable = easy fix.

9/6/2008 4:43:37 AM

Unplugging the ethernet cable would be an easy fix and money saving.

9/6/2008 8:14:09 AM

If he has Azureus he can cap them himself.

If he is too much of an ass to do that you might need to torment him until he does.

9/8/2008 12:10:45 AM