Bittorrent slowing down connections

[tigersty1e]

My roommate keeps downloading through bittorrent and the ping I get in games is 300+.. too high to play.

We are on cable and he connects wirelessly and I connect through physical cables. I have no experience with this, but is it possible to configure the router to better accommodate us?

For instance, cap his bandwidth?

 

[vorgusa]

Matters the Router.. some of the new Dlink routers have QoS which you can set to match your games so your game traffic goes before his bittorrent traffic. Also if you have an old computer laying around that you do not use, you can use a program like pfsense to turn it into a router, but you will need two NICs on the computer and possibly a switch (which can be your old router). If you can talk to your roomate to get him to cap his own bandwitch using the bittorrent program that would be best.

 

[tigersty1e]

You know how roomates are.... BS....

I had a headache just figuring out he was running bittorent. I thought I had malware/spyware because my internet was so slow and my ping in online games was 300+. He had no clue why our internet was so slow (yeah right....). I had to confront him on the bittorrent after poeple were saying it was bittorrent.

I have to go home and check to see what kind of router it is.

 

[vorgusa]

hmm are you 100% sure.. without the settings changed on the router you can usually not get full speed on Bittorrent, does he know how to access the router?

 

[tigersty1e]

It's not that he's getting full speed, but that he's hogging the bandwidth...

He does have the password for the router, so I think he does know how to access the router, but I can change the password for some of the critical access areas.