Regulating Bandwidth Through A wired router?

[HiTek21]

My brother is serving / downloading stuff non stop and it slows down the entire internet through out the house. I can't get a decent connection to any internet game because of the constant use of the internet and it takes forever to load up web pages. My brother is a retard saying that his file sharing has nothing to do with the internet being slow, we're using Adelpha Cable 1.5mbps down 15k/s upstream with a Linksys BEFSR41 4 port cable/dsl router.

 

[skyking]

15k/s upstream

Are you sure that is all it is? If so, his down/uploading is likely hammering all your DNS requests, and that is the cause of your slowness.
There are clients available to install on HIS computer, which will shape his traffic.

 

[masul0100]

If you have a spare computer you can setup smoothwall as a router and shape traffic through it, this is what I use to keep speeds reasonable despite my FTP and web hosting. It works well but takes a little bit of time and effort to get it working it's best.

Masul

Smoothwall

 

[JackMDS]

Another alternative: NetLimiter - You can use NetLimiter to set download/upload transfer rate .

General info. Can I Monitor my LAN, control the usage of the Internet, and Network Resources by other computers from my main computer?

 

[ZeroNine8]

I'm currently using a Linksys 4 port router, I'd like to experiment with Smoothwall since I have a couple old computers lying around. I'm considering using an old Pentium 200MHz with 32mb ram (SDRAM) and 2 ethernet cards for this purpose. Any ideas/experience with how a machine with those specs could handle being a router for 3-10 computers and traffic shaping enabled? I'd like to keep latency comparable to the hardware router and plan to connect to a 10/100 switch for the network backbone. I've also got a K6-2 350 with 384MB ram, but I'd rather use the older 200MHz computer as it is smaller, quieter, and less useful in other applications.

thoughts?

 

[mgpaulus]

That old P-200 should be more than adequate for a router. Granted, not much more than a router, but it should handle your routing requests just fine, and probably be a bit more snappy than your current router. (That's the beauty of linux. It's much more hardware appreciative than Window$)

If you are Hard Disk constrained, then you might not want to install X, tho.

Hmmm. Another thought. Depending upon your home network, (are you running 100Mb?), your MoBo will need to be PCI based, so you can get two 10/100 NICs in there. 3COM sells an ISA 10/100 NIC (3C515), but it's actually constrained to about 20MB, because of the limitations of the ISA bus.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: mgpaulus
That old P-200 should be more than adequate for a router. Granted, not much more than a router, but it should handle your routing requests just fine, and probably be a bit more snappy than your current router. (That's the beauty of linux. It's much more hardware appreciative than Window$)

If you are Hard Disk constrained, then you might not want to install X, tho.

Hmmm. Another thought. Depending upon your home network, (are you running 100Mb?), your MoBo will need to be PCI based, so you can get two 10/100 NICs in there. 3COM sells an ISA 10/100 NIC (3C515), but it's actually constrained to about 20MB, because of the limitations of the ISA bus.

Is that 20MB going to really be a factor when we are talking about a 1.5mb download?

altq seems to be able to limit upload quite well. Just another alternative.

 

[skyking]

unless he has some unbelievable connection, 100Mbit is not important on a gateway/router. Use an auto 10/100 hub/switch, and all the rest of the LAN can run at 100 for big file transfers, etc.