Software or hardware to split internet bandwidth evenly?

[skipsneeky2]

Got 4 people living under this household,got a 20 mbps download/2mb upload package.

There is 3 computers 1 rarely goes even on youtube the second being me i rarely download but gaming is what i do,and well the third pc being my friends roommate well he torrents.

This evening i got so fed up when playing BF3 i got disconnected 3 times within one minute of joining,pinging and lagging terribly and i know my friends roommate is running up 5 movie downloads at least,and his favorite program being frostwire has a habbit of also uploading and seeding,and despite me showing him how to disable it uploading,it still continues,hampering my end .

At this point,i believe he is going out of his way to do it on purpose to piss me off as i made this a issue before.

So is there any sorta software or hardware i could hook up to my router,to limit a certain amount of bandwidth to a certain pc?Also the offending pc is a laptop running wireless off my router.

 

[PlastikSpork]

Tell your roommate to start limiting his bandwidth other wise I would go into your router and block all p2p traffic or you can enable QoS (Quality of Service). I have DD-WRT installed on my router and this is how the help file explains QoS.

Bandwidth management prioritizes the traffic on your router. Interactive traffic (telephony, browsing, telnet, etc.) gets priority and bulk traffic (file transfer, P2P) gets low priority. The main goal is to allow both types to live side-by side without unimportant traffic disturbing more critical things. All of this is more or less automatic.

 

[TSDible]

I would also do this at the router level.

DD-WRT or Tomato is a great solution if you have a router that supports it. If not, check in to what your router offers in the way of QoS.

What router do you have?

 

[imagoon]

Just remember the QoS is outbound only, so torrents and the like can still hammer and wreck the downstream. It sometimes takes some serious upload throttling to make the tracker stop serving up your ip address as often to potential downloaders.

 

[PlastikSpork]

Just remember the QoS is outbound only, so torrents and the like can still hammer and wreck the downstream. It sometimes takes some serious upload throttling to make the tracker stop serving up your ip address as often to potential downloaders.

With DD-WRT you can manage downlink bandwidth with QoS as well.

Below is a screen shot of the DD-WRT QoS screen I found on the net. Notice the Downlink section.

 

[imagoon]

With DD-WRT you can manage downlink bandwidth with QoS as well.

Below is a screen shot of the DD-WRT QoS screen I found on the net. Notice the Downlink section.

You can try, but it won't do anything. Nothing stops me from dumping 40 Mbps of UDP on your router. Discarding it at the remote end of the choke point, still chokes the link.

--edit--

Now is as good as any to repeat "QoS 101"

You can only control what you send. You can only passively or "suggest" control to what you receive. Controlling TCP a bit can throttle the download for example, but that only applies to applications and TCP/IP stacks that respect link status. UDP, GRE, ICMP etc have no throttle control elements. There is nothing the router on the remote end of a choked link can do to control the flow of those packets. They would need to be throttled or dropped at the source of the choke point to prevent them from getting on the link in the first place. For QoS to really work, you need QoS control at both ends of a link.

Another example: If your ISP has a choked T1 that supports you and 19 other people, no amount of QoS on your end point is going to help you. If somehow you could control the remote T1 you could QoS source and destination and make it work.

 

[SunnyD]

If you control the router, then block BT ports. BT is soaking up your upstream, and hence causing your entire outbound connection to choke. Unless your BT using roommate decides to start using rate caps, just block BT completely and all will be well.

 

[stlcardinals]

If QoS doesn't do the trick for you, you can always report him to the MPAA :biggrin:

 

[skipsneeky2]

Appears my router does have qos options,mostly uplink and priority rule list,as i set up 1mbps as the maximum uplink bandwidth as i enabled bandwidth control.

Three options that are enabled under QOS are...

Enable WMM(wi-fi multimedia)settings
turn internet access QOS on
turn internet bandwidth control on with 1mbps set for uplink

Not sure if that 1mbps basically means now i get reserved bandwidth to my lan port?

Or adding exact profiles like Battlefield 3 or Bad company 2 for example will prioritize bandwidth as there appears to be a option about that as well but its asking about ports and stuff.

Main issue is when this guy torrents,its also seeding and uploading and that's when it hurts the most as i rarely need to download anything.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Here is the description for the 3 options i have enabled

Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) Settings

WMM (Wireless Multimedia) is a subset of the 802.11e standard. WMM allows wireless traffic to have a range of priorities, depending on the kind of data. Time-dependent information, like video or audio, has a higher priority than normal traffic. For WMM to function correctly, wireless clients must also support WMM.

Turn Internet Access QoS On

If this feature is enabled, the QoS function prioritizes Internet traffic. For applications, online gaming, an Ethernet LAN port, or a specified MAC address that already exists in the drop-down list, you can modify the priority level by clicking the Edit button. You can click the Delete button to erase the priority rule. You can also define the priority policy for each online game, application, LAN port, or the computer's MAC address by clicking the Add Priority Rule button.

For Applications or Online Gaming

To set up the priority for an application or online gaming:

1. Select Applications or Online Gaming from the Priority Category lists.
2. Select the Internet application or game you want to use from one of the relevant lists.
3. Select the priority level: Highest, High, Normal, or Low.
4. You can also type the name in the QoS Policy for field for this rule.
5. Click Apply .
For an Ethernet LAN port

To set up the priority for computers connected to a LAN port:

1. Select the number of the LAN port for which you want to specify the priority level.
2. Select the priority level: Highest, High, , or Low.
3. You can also type the name in the QoS Policy for field for this rule.
4. Click Apply.

 

[PlastikSpork]

Have you asked your roommate to limit his bandwidth? In µTorrent, BitTorrent and Vuse you can limit your upload and download bandwidth.

Also, who's name is on the bill? Recently a co-worker of mine downloaded a movie via Torrent's. A week later he received a letter in the mail from the film companies Attorney asking to settle the case for $2000 or they would take him to court. My co-worker took the letter to his attorney and he advised him to settle the case. So if your roommate is downloading pirated movies, software and your name is on the Cable bill, well you're setting yourself up for a big problem down the road.

read this---> How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget Movies Into Big Bucks

 

[skipsneeky2]

Have you asked your roommate to limit his bandwidth? In µTorrent, BitTorrent and Vuse you can limit your upload and download bandwidth.

Also, who's name is on the bill? Recently a co-worker of mine downloaded a movie via Torrent's. A week later he received a letter in the mail from the film companies Attorney asking to settle the case for $2000 or they would take him to court. My co-worker took the letter to his attorney and he advised him to settle the case. So if your roommate is downloading pirated movies, software and your name is on the Cable bill, well you're setting yourself up for a big problem down the road.

read this---> How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget Movies Into Big Bucks

Not my bill and i believe i fixed my problem,using those Q0S settings,i should be set.

Thanks everyone for the help