I need a router that caps upload...

[ShyGuy91284]

Ok, the thing is, the person I will be living with in about a month (and sharing a connection with) is going to be running a game server 24/7. I've browsed the internet with torrent uploads maxed, and it usually slows down worse then dial-up connecting to sites. Does anyone know of a router I could use that would leave 15 k/s upload free so I won't need to battle with his server?

 

[smashp]

Originally posted by: ShyGuy91284
Ok, the thing is, the person I will be living with in about a month (and sharing a connection with) is going to be running a game server 24/7. I've browsed the internet with torrent uploads maxed, and it usually slows down worse then dial-up connecting to sites. Does anyone know of a router I could use that would leave 15 k/s upload free so I won't need to battle with his server?

pfsense or monowall. traffic shaping

 

[InlineFive]

Pretty much anything with QoS ought to do it.

 

[blemoine]

ipcop or endian firewall will do the traffic shaping. what kind of connection? most consumer broadband connections don't allow servers.

 

[ShyGuy91284]

Software on the client computers isn't something I think is really an option. I will look into QoS though. And even though it's a consumer broadband connection, I don't think it will stop him... Probably need a warning notice before he would....

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: ShyGuy91284
I've browsed the internet with torrent uploads maxed

While a game server can take a significant amount of system resources on the host server, particularly if there are a lot of clients connected, most online games are designed to use very little actual network bandwidth so I suspect that the line the torrents you mentioned cause more of the problem than anything his gaming server might do since a single torrent can easily take more bandwidth than any game server would. Any moderately decent router with QoS (Quality of Service) can be configured to give web browsing and any other preferred traffic priority over the bandwidth hogging torrents (and even over his server if he ends up getting a heavy flow of traffic on the server) so that the torrents and the game server get as much bandwidth as they want when nothing else is happening, but are forced to a lower priority so the QoS traffic is not interrupted when it is being used. PFSense, M0n0wall, IPCop, and Endian will all do what you want to do, and do it very well, but if you want something simple to set up, a basic home broadband router with QoS should do the trick.