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Good wireless router for gaming (with roommates who hog bandwidth?)

Phokus

Phokus

Lifer
Hey guys,

I have a friend who sometimes get screwed over by his roommates because they bittorrent too much or stream movies too much and destroys his ping for gaming... he'll get 400-600 ms when they're saturating his bandwidth.

I was thinking he should get one of those d-link gaming routers http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16833127158

but after reading reviews, i'm not sure how much it'll help him... firingsquad had a review where pings of 200 ms were cut down to 60, but another review which totally saturated the bandwidth had pings of 1400 ms brought down to 450 ms (a great feat, but still hardly playable)...

What do you guys think? Any other solutions?
 
Quote: "Good wireless router for gaming with roommates who hog bandwidth?"

There is No Entry level Wireless Router suitable for this predicament.

Otherwise.

Option 1. Get rid of the Roomie.

Option 2. Buy for few hundreds a SOHO Appliance.
 
If you're friend has the password to the router, he needs to log into it and block their access to bit torrent, then change the password to the router.
 
The problem with BitTorrent and the rest of the P2Ps is the number of connections the clients create. If they are 'sharing', then you'll be flooded with connections...if they're doing a search and searching more than a couple of systems at a time, you're going to have the same problem. What you need is a basic router with DDWRT on it. I suggest the Linksys WRT54GL...should run about $50. There are others that are compatible with DDWRT, but this is a good start.

DDWRT will give you an 'optimize for gaming' checkbox. I've never used it, but I'm sure it recognizes when you hit certain known gaming ports.

DDWRT has an option that 'catches' all P2P traffic....this will either stop or limit what they can do and make gaming faster for you. I had a roommate that used Limewire. Rather than telling him to stop, I simply threw a QOS policy on his mac address that said to give me higher priority over him. The other method is to use the day of the week and time settings so the router will disable the downloads at preset times that you want to game and restore connections at preset times. The QOS settings are best for physical ports because you can limit a port to Gbit, 100 Mbit, 10Mbit, 1 Mbit, 512kbit, etc...all the way down to a crawl depending on how much you want to share.

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If you get a router that has the right firmware, you'll be able to tweak how things work.
 
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