Bandwidth Capping Computers through the router

[imported_Champ]

I have a telus router: Dlink BCM96358, specifically and I am having trouble with torrents running from some people in the house, we all agreed that torrents would be maxed at 100kb/s during the PM hours so everyone gets to use the internet and its getting difficult with one person to enforce. I'm at the point where I want to shut the breaker off for his room.

So my question is are there any guides to how I can set up data limits on all users on a schedule, I know it was possible on our old router which had DD-WRT but I think writing that on this router would somehow screw me over, after all it is Telus.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Emulex]

set up your own router with dd-wrt dude.

 

[Ksyder]

Or the easy way would be to get the guy to fix the setting in the torrent client. I'm sure you already tried this though. Heres an idea, unplug his ethernet cable when he is violating the rules!

 

[dawks]

If you don't want to modify the current router (maybe because its a Telus router running their firmware) you'll need to get another router and put it inside the Telus router. Or get a PC with two NICs and do filtering.

Otherwise if its just a standard router go ahead and flash it with DD-WRT.

 

[wlee]

If you're trying to control multiple torrent users then even a typical DD-WRT WiFi router will prob puke and reboot all the time. If you have a spare P4 class box,you're better off retasking it as a proxywall. Here's a list of a few that support more sophisticated filtering and QOS, that should be able to handle the load. There are both paid for and free vers. avail.


www.astaro.com
www.endian.com/en/community
www.untangle.com

 

[NesuD]

I have had the identical problem with my 2 teenagers. My solution is an Asus WL-520GU flashed with Tomato. Classified all their traffic to lowest class and capped their bandwidth at 5% until they complied with the rules. Even then I still limit them to no more than 50% bandwidth with only 10% guaranteed. With myself, my wife and various devices requiring internet classified in a higher class than them things run pretty smooth and they don't kill the connection for anyone else.

If you're trying to control multiple torrent users then even a typical DD-WRT WiFi router will prob puke and reboot all the time.

Not necessarily. My Asus hosts a dozen devices with hundreds of simultaneaous connections and has run for months without a single hickup.

 

[Emulex]

just turn their port down to 10-half (fixed) to their switch- then they can't use much bandwidth at all. maybe 8-9 meg out of what comcast is 42'ish here now.