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Roommates hogging bandwidth

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Alphathree33

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He's not even HERE right now, but as soon as I unplugged him from the router, BAM, my internet connect went from sluggish to normal.

(His light was flashing like crazy on the router as well, which clued me in.)

And here I thought there was some big disruption because of Hurricane Katrina. Lol. Nope.

Now obviously I'm going to have a chat with him about this problem and it's going to get resolved one way or the other, because I control the cable bill and the router.

But I'm wondering, is there a device or firmware update I can use on my Linksys router that can limit the bandwidth of a particular connection?

I'd like to restrict each of us to 75 KB/sec that way we can share the cable line without worries.
 
LoL, when I lived in the dorms a few years back my roomy liked to leave kazaa on 24/7, which KILLED the internet which was already slow.

I changed my computer name to NIU-RESNET, which was the name of the internet company at my school and did 'netsend' to "warn" him of internet overuse. He started freaking out and unplugged his laptop and headed to the library.

Of course just talking to him would be easier.
 
Originally posted by: Taggart
1. plant some kiddie porn on his pc
2. call FBI
3. profit!
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Only issue is that they'd probably take his computer too! 2 computers within 10 or 15 feet of each other, one has kiddie pr0n and you expect them to only take one? 😛
 
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: Taggart
1. plant some kiddie porn on his pc
2. call FBI
3. profit!
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Only issue is that they'd probably take his computer too! 2 computers within 10 or 15 feet of each other, one has kiddie pr0n and you expect them to only take one? 😛
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Yup, even the router would disappear.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
LoL, when I lived in the dorms a few years back my roomy liked to leave kazaa on 24/7, which KILLED the internet which was already slow.

I changed my computer name to NIU-RESNET, which was the name of the internet company at my school and did 'netsend' to "warn" him of internet overuse. He started freaking out and unplugged his laptop and headed to the library.

Of course just talking to him would be easier.
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ROFL!!!
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
LoL, when I lived in the dorms a few years back my roomy liked to leave kazaa on 24/7, which KILLED the internet which was already slow.

I changed my computer name to NIU-RESNET, which was the name of the internet company at my school and did 'netsend' to "warn" him of internet overuse. He started freaking out and unplugged his laptop and headed to the library.

Of course just talking to him would be easier.
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Thats a nice fun easy way out
 
Originally posted by: intogamer
Originally posted by: TallBill
LoL, when I lived in the dorms a few years back my roomy liked to leave kazaa on 24/7, which KILLED the internet which was already slow.

I changed my computer name to NIU-RESNET, which was the name of the internet company at my school and did 'netsend' to "warn" him of internet overuse. He started freaking out and unplugged his laptop and headed to the library.

Of course just talking to him would be easier.
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Thats a nice fun easy way out
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Well. Mayb ethat's why we have 5GB limits. Even so, people go over all the time, and there are so many switches so that I've never had any internet problems.
 
Originally posted by: henryay
Force him to install a bandwidth throttler like netlimiter.
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Winner. Netlimiter works great!! It's a small program that you can run on each computer to easily set limits on down/up traffic on every program that uses the internet.
 
Get an old box and install coyote linux on it, it's got QOS control and it'll let you limit bandwidth to how you please. Kinda finnicky though so :/ might wanna try smooth wall? Though I dunno if it can do QOS with out paying for it.
 
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