Can you limit bandwidth?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:05 am

So my friend has a big problem he deals with everyday. At home, he has to share his Internet connection with about nine other computers. His sisters are constantly downloading things everyday, which slows his Internet connection to a crawl. He can't even play any online games without being disconnected constantly.

I was wondering if there is a way to limit bandwidth amongst the other computers so that the Internet connection can be fairly shared.

Post by **odditude** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:10 am

some (if not all) filesharing apps allow you to limit bandwidth utilization - keep in mind, this would need to be set on each of those computers separately.

also, it wouldn't surprise me overmuch if a ddwrt/tomatoed router is capable of doing that on a per-port or per-IP basis.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:43 am

OpenWrt's QoS script seems to do a fine job of prioritizing P2P traffic with just the default settings. Of course, I've only tested with two systems running torrents constantly, not 9.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:00 am

Also take a look at Tomato.

Post by **odditude** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:05 am

odditude wrote:a ddwrt/tomatoed router

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:24 pm

QoS is the way to go.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:53 pm

Thanks for all the suggestions. I probably will ask him to use QoS whenever he wants to install one of those custom firmwares for his Netgear router.