Is there any free software to limit the Internet speed on one PC?

[Sforsyth]

Is there any free software to limit the Internet speed on one PC so it won't effect my CS:S?

 

[Lonyo]

Netlimiter?

 

[EagleKeeper]

How much is your daughter doing that will impact your bandwidth.

Would it be easier to jsut limit the time she is on the system vs when you "NEED" it.

 

[homercles337]

You should have thought of that BEFORE you started breeding.

 

[Sforsyth]

do you think her surfing the web would effect my on-line gaming?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Sforsyth
do you think her surfing the web would effect my on-line gaming?

Not unless she is pulling down music or a lot of high resolution images.

Standard web pages for school research or IM/chat will not have impact.

If there is a noticable impact then you are very, very good or very bad at the gaming.

If you are very, very good; then pay to up your pipeline.

I will not comment of the later.

The child's education should be a higher priority than your gaming entertainment.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

What's your connection speed? If it's dialup or low grade "broadband" (aka dialup 2: AT&Ts Revenge), then anything anyone else is doing is going to affect you pretty much. Under any other connection, unless she's pegging your upload with something like bittorrent the lag probably isn't her fault.

 

[BladeVenom]

With the popularity of Youtube, and Google video I would guess it could cause noticeable lag, especially if she decides to upload something.

 

[Thyme]

Originally posted by: homercles337
You should have thought of that BEFORE you started breeding.

:laugh:

 

[Sforsyth]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
What's your connection speed? If it's dialup or low grade "broadband" (aka dialup 2: AT&Ts Revenge), then anything anyone else is doing is going to affect you pretty much. Under any other connection, unless she's pegging your upload with something like bittorrent the lag probably isn't her fault.

As of August 1st, the maximum download speed has increased from 7 Mbps up to 10 Mbps

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: Sforsyth

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
What's your connection speed? If it's dialup or low grade "broadband" (aka dialup 2: AT&Ts Revenge), then anything anyone else is doing is going to affect you pretty much. Under any other connection, unless she's pegging your upload with something like bittorrent the lag probably isn't her fault.

As of August 1st, the maximum download speed has increased from 7 Mbps up to 10 Mbps

Seems very unlikely she's pegging that connection. Even if she's downloading pretty heavy it's tough to hit 1 MB/s and gaming generally doesn't take a whole lot of bandwidth. Is your upload capped at something different from your download? If somethings maxing out your upload it'll cause a lot of lag for everything. If it is maxed all you need to do is find what's doing it (bittorrent being the most common thing that could do that) and limit it to a bit below your max.

It's probably really unlikely, but if the server has lag issues no matter how good your connection is it won't help. Also, if your running with settings too high for your computer. I think you'd know if those were the problem, but I figured it's worth mentioning.

 

[lxskllr]

Set qos on your router to give priority to your packets, she'll get what's left.

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Set qos on your router to give priority to your packets, she'll get what's left.

Got that on my WRT54GL.
QoS is the way to go here. I find it really usefull when i want to game and I'm using BitTorrent. I basically set BitTorrent on the lowest (get whatevers left) and have the games on the highest so that they come first.

It's still not as fast as if I didn't have BitTorrent running, but for you, how much bandwidth could she possibly use? When someone is on my other computer browsing the internet I can't tell the differnece.