Roommates hogging bandwidth

[Ranger X]

Tell him to stop uploading. He must be doing some serious P2P transfers.

You can always say that you got a call from the cable company notifying you about the excessive bandwidth useage. Then ask him if he's using any P2P programs.

 

[Merlyn3D]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
if you have a linksys router you can upload some open source firmware (openwrt, hyperwrt, some others) that give you QoS. you can limit up/down on each connection. if he's uploading too much it kills the download speeds too.

Chances are he's maxing out your upstream, which is why it's so slow. Either do the QoS route, or cut the cable going to his computer at some point where the cable is hidden behind a desk or something.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Set the router to forward all the ports that kazaa uses to your computer (or any other ip).

Have it route back to his IP. That way, he can only download from himself. 😀

 

[sourceninja]

Its possible he could be infected and is a spam relay to.

 

[Squisher]

Put a rubber band around his ethernet cable.

 

[Staples]

Originally posted by: Hough NutZ

Originally posted by: henryay
Force him to install a bandwidth throttler like netlimiter.

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.

Are you using the recent betas? Beta 2 and now 3 seem a little screwy for me. I see the permissions editor all the time after I minimize it and can't get back to the regular page. Annoying as hell.

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Windogg
shutgui.exe is your best friend.

Punishment Hub :evil:

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[WTT0001]

1. Pickup a Linksys WRT54G ($60 at wal-mart)
2. Update the firmware
3. Enable QOS
4. Set limits
5. Enjoy😀

Or you might be able to do it with your current router, a bit cheaper that way😀

WTT

 

[RaDragon]

Whatever happened to talking to the person to resolve the problem like adults first? If he doesn't comply after your talk, then maybe he does deserve plan B (e.g., software bandwidth restriction)... 😉

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: RaDragon
Whatever happened to talking to the person to resolve the problem like adults first? If he doesn't comply after your talk, then maybe he does deserve plan B (e.g., software bandwidth restriction)... 😉

fvk that sh!t...

 

[Aquaman]

so.......... what did you do?

Did you talk to him?

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Vertimus]

WTF... This never happens if you have a good QoS system.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Originally posted by: blustori

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.

ROFL!!!

pwned

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Vertimus
WTF... This never happens if you have a good QoS system.

:thumbsup:

 

[yourdeardaniel]

anonymously report him to RIAA/MPAA

 

[Aquaman]

update?

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[DainBramaged]

Kill them.

Edit: sorry, see Kilgor's post.

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: cjgallen
Defraggle his motherdisk.

lol

 

[Goosemaster]

seriously, use m0n0wall

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: Alphathree33
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.

Packet shaping is your friend 😀 I restricted p2p to 2k/sec to discourage my room mates from using it.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: Alphathree33
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.

Packet shaping is your friend 😀 I restricted p2p to 2k/sec to discourage my room mates from using it.

dude..thats evil