Annoying housemate
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Edward you had me excited thenThe DIR-615 isn't supported by DD WRT. : (
Though I will be putting that on the wrt54g at my rents' house so my little sister stops faffing with it. Cheers
Sorry, ya I have to replace my router (Linksys WRT160Nv3) wireless drops & DD-WRT doesn't support the new router. Kind of makes me sad, but the price was good $10.50 it was the deal of the day.
Hide any illegal software you own, call the police and explain to them what he is doing and that he is downloading pirated software/films/music, if they don't sound interested explain you have strong reason to believe he's also downloading and uploading child porn.
The police will come round break his door down and take all his computers away, your problem is solved, if he blames you deny all involvement
The police will come round break his door down and take all his computers away, your problem is solved, if he blames you deny all involvement
Harsh
The bottom line is you're paying for a service you can't use properly as someone's taking advantage.
Tell him to sort the downloading out to sensible times/limit bandwidth or get his own line and be done with it.
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call the police ?
lol
lol
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get a big old bucket of water and chuck it on his pc saying "water cooling"
Make a legtrap outside his door so he gets caught, then check his pc out.
if that fails call the police on him for torrenting.
Make a legtrap outside his door so he gets caught, then check his pc out.
if that fails call the police on him for torrenting.
Tell him to only use torrents during the day or in certain hours.
Or tell him how to use newsgroups hehe.
Failing that if he keeps messing you around install opendns and block all file sharing sites. A good way to check is look at the router logs and see what sites he uses and block them with opendns.
https://store.opendns.com/setup/device/dlink-dir-615/
Or tell him how to use newsgroups hehe.
Failing that if he keeps messing you around install opendns and block all file sharing sites. A good way to check is look at the router logs and see what sites he uses and block them with opendns.
https://store.opendns.com/setup/device/dlink-dir-615/
If you're 20meg or less wrt54gl + tomato.
If you're above (50 meg) RT-N16 with tomato.
If you're cheap feed his cat5 into a shredder
Newsgroups + tomato qos is the way forward, mostly because you can't block torrents unless you use dpi at home Although in fairness, if I'd exhausted all diplomatic options and a flatmate still had zero respect for polite, reasonable requests I'd just yank the plug for a couple days. Partly to make him realise I'm serious, partly to give me time to install the tomato router I should have bought originally
Teach him about newsgroups i.e. usenet, seriously.
If you're above (50 meg) RT-N16 with tomato.
If you're cheap feed his cat5 into a shredder
Newsgroups + tomato qos is the way forward, mostly because you can't block torrents unless you use dpi at home
Although in fairness, if I'd exhausted all diplomatic options and a flatmate still had zero respect for polite, reasonable requests I'd just yank the plug for a couple days. Partly to make him realise I'm serious, partly to give me time to install the tomato router I should have bought originally Teach him about newsgroups i.e. usenet, seriously.
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i would just call the cops... sounds harsh i know... why should 1 person get things for free the rest of us pay for. which we save up and buy with out hard earned cash.
Download a letter template from the net warning of criminal charges against someone illegally downloading, change the name to yours, slot it under his door, THEN pull out his internet, that way you have more reason for doing it
Oh and also, lol at your opening line about England, so, so true
Oh and also, lol at your opening line about England, so, so true
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Just unplug his network cable for a week. Say the internet is in your name and tell him where to stick it.
Next time unplug for 2 weeks.
Next time unplug for 2 weeks.
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Just enable mac filtering in the router, add the devices you want, anything else will be blocked 
Blah, sorry just skimmed topic.
Blah, sorry just skimmed topic.
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If you are serious about your gaming, maybe look into a cheap ADSL isp to run alongside the VM connection. As you will be able to download on the cable line you could get something very basic like ADSL Max (up to 8mbit) with a low usage cap.
Personally if I went back to living in a shared house I'd get my own dedicated connection if possible, unless maybe some kind of supreme QoS was available.
Personally if I went back to living in a shared house I'd get my own dedicated connection if possible, unless maybe some kind of supreme QoS was available.
IPCop with QOS-NG
Can do advanced quality of service and bandwidth settings, by Port, IP or Layer7 (application packet scanning, so it doesn't matter what port he uses, you can limit his torrent packets) The reverse is also true in that you can just set your game packets to highest priority.
Can do advanced quality of service and bandwidth settings, by Port, IP or Layer7 (application packet scanning, so it doesn't matter what port he uses, you can limit his torrent packets) The reverse is also true in that you can just set your game packets to highest priority.