Best way to limit download/upload on DSL.

[HalfCrazy]

I'm on a 1500/384 DSL connection. Which I pay for all of it my self. I hooked up my mom's computer upto my router so she can use the internet. Just to do simple viewing of website's and e-mail. Which is what you really only done in the past on dialup.

But now since she seen how fast the connection is. She been watching video clip's off of websites which is using most of my bandwidth. Since I'm on my computer most of the time playing a game on-line it makes me lag bad. To the point where I get all most to dropped from the server. Only thing I could think of is to lower the "TCP Receive Window" by using Dr. TCP off the dslreports website.

That did help some but did not limit the upload speed any. Is there a free software I can use that can limit the download and upload speed on her computer ? I tryed searching the forum but I could not find anything. Maybe I did use the right words to search for what I was looking for dont know.

 

[aspitzer]

stick a linux box in between the DSL modem you the users (you/mom) and then use traffic shaper and/or some other QOS utilities.

I have used traffic shaper before for a QA lab testing our applications over a 56k modem... it is easy to setup and admin.

 

[JackMDS]

I spent many hours trying to find free Windows software that does it,.

Todate did not find one. Netlimiter ($30 at netlimiter.com) does it well but it is shareware.

Or Build a Penguin Box, there are few Penguin packages that can do it.

:sun:

 

[HalfCrazy]

Thanks. I'll check into those options you guys gave me.

 

[flexy]

wingate ?????

 

[cmetz]

HalfCrazy, Linux or OpenBSD on a PC is the best way to do it. Another way would be to get a Linksys WRT54G and to use some of the hacked firmware out there that does traffic shaping, it's Linux underneath but canned for easier use and running on $70ish hardware.

 

[Cheetah8799]

It is possible to do this with the Smoothwall firewall distro. It's a mod that is posted in their forums. I haven't done it, but it should do what you need.