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Well theres this lodger staying at my house, and she downloads constantly and kills my bandwidth. And i cant play games or anything online.

Is there a way, from my bt home hub, i can either restricted P2P or limit bandwidth?

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Tell her that she's killing your broadband and you cant use it for what you need! She's the tenant, so she has no choice.

Either that or you can get another line into her room only and have a different BBand on it (she pays for it all of course!)
 
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Ugh, I have a similar problem with housemates. We're with VM cable and between 4 and 9pm, if you hit a certain download limit (I think it's 750mb), they you get chucked into a "high use" group, which nukes everything for 5 hours once the download has hit.
All of them watch episodes off of 4oD, usually the same damn episode at 300+mb a piece :(
 
just lay down some rules saying she can only torrent between x and y oclock and on her client of bittorrent or what ever have a fiddle and limit the download rate and upload rate
 
Yer we have the same problem in my student house. We're on VM 20mb cable and even at those speeds it is impossible to play online games on the xbox 360 if people are downloading. Just lay down the law, tell her there is a certain time she can download stuff.
 
there are a couple of ways about doing this
first off i agree with the rest here lay down the law
the first and easiest way would be to allocate each pc a IP and using the router you can determine when each ip can have access to the net
the other way is using prioritzation within the router where you can determine what type of traffic has priority where you have email and certain games have a higher priority than p2p.

Don's i also think this topic could get more hit's if it was in the networking section of the forum (just a suggestion)
 
My brother, who out geeks me like Yoda out jedis a stormtrooper, and has cisco certs and MS certs and a BSc in computers [1], spent AGES working on this problem.
He created a firewall QoS management system that basically kicked ass.
He assigned different priority bands and put various ports and what have you (like I said...him yoda, me grunt) into them. The upshot was that we had p2p stuff in the bottom band so as soon as someone surfed, azureus was throttled near to death, we could also divide the bandwidth into 3 equally between the 2 desktops and the server , or favour any one of them. Each individual machine's "chunk" of the bandwidth (be it favoured, fair or deprived), was then further tuned by the priority bands. Worked brilliantly. It would sit on fair or server-favour most of the time, and I could still surf fairly well, but downloads were poor and azureus was strangled, if I needed the whole pipe, a quick click to favour my machine and I had the whole connection to myself (more or less, obviously other stuff still got in and out, and anything I left slack was up for grabs). It could also prioritize acknowledgement packets which maximized the speed at which azureus could upload before it effected the download speed.

We stopped using it when we got a better connection, but I think he still has the scripts, and am 60% sure he added it to his floppy firewall (wee sh** used to buy junkers for a tenner, compaq P60's that sort of thing, strip out the sound and HD's and anything else surplus to requirements, shove his floppy firewall disc in them, and flog them for £300).

If you have a paperweight PC somewhere and can do a wee tiny bit of Linux, I could see if I can blag an image file of the floppy for you. Sounds like it would be ideal for you.


Then again, repeated use of the LART is probably a better idea as has been suggested above.
Or just leave a spade and two bags of quicklime in full view.



[1] and yes, he IS a useless dipstick and commen sense computing)
 
Yeah, your house your rules. I think i have the worst deal tbh.

We have 3 PCs on our network - me (online gamer) My brother (Flightsim online) and my mum and dad (normal internet users). For the whole month we only get 4GB peak download allowance and then our speed gets chucked down to 156kbps i think from about 2mbps which means loss in online games and streaming video is a no go. We normally go over this limit with 7-10 days before renewal and that's without going on youtube, seriously limiting my gaming, and no downloads. Dad refused to upgrade as he blamed it on "a mindless shooting game". Luckily Plusnet have got their act together and are now offering 15GB total (7.5GB peak) for the same option *YAY*.
 
My brother, who out geeks me like Yoda out jedis a stormtrooper, and has cisco certs and MS certs and a BSc in computers [1], spent AGES working on this problem.
He created a firewall QoS management system that basically kicked ass.
He assigned different priority bands and put various ports and what have you (like I said...him yoda, me grunt) into them. The upshot was that we had p2p stuff in the bottom band so as soon as someone surfed, azureus was throttled near to death, we could also divide the bandwidth into 3 equally between the 2 desktops and the server , or favour any one of them. Each individual machine's "chunk" of the bandwidth (be it favoured, fair or deprived), was then further tuned by the priority bands. Worked brilliantly. It would sit on fair or server-favour most of the time, and I could still surf fairly well, but downloads were poor and azureus was strangled, if I needed the whole pipe, a quick click to favour my machine and I had the whole connection to myself (more or less, obviously other stuff still got in and out, and anything I left slack was up for grabs). It could also prioritize acknowledgement packets which maximized the speed at which azureus could upload before it effected the download speed.

We stopped using it when we got a better connection, but I think he still has the scripts, and am 60% sure he added it to his floppy firewall (wee sh** used to buy junkers for a tenner, compaq P60's that sort of thing, strip out the sound and HD's and anything else surplus to requirements, shove his floppy firewall disc in them, and flog them for £300).

If you have a paperweight PC somewhere and can do a wee tiny bit of Linux, I could see if I can blag an image file of the floppy for you. Sounds like it would be ideal for you.


Then again, repeated use of the LART is probably a better idea as has been suggested above.
Or just leave a spade and two bags of quicklime in full view.



[1] and yes, he IS a useless dipstick and commen sense computing)


If he is so brilliant, why did it take him ages?

Sounds like a tard to me.
 
Got to be yet another nail in VMs coffin of poor service. Just cos they have been too damn tight in upgrading their user end network, WE have to pay the price by not getting the service we pay for!
Any suggestions for a better provider?
 
Dad refused to upgrade as he blamed it on "a mindless shooting game"..
urgh i hate that. my dad wouldn't even sort out the broadband, he refused to. I set it up and now he's on the internet every night with my kit and the line i pay for. cheeky git
 
Got to be yet another nail in VMs coffin of poor service. Just cos they have been too damn tight in upgrading their user end network, WE have to pay the price by not getting the service we pay for!
Any suggestions for a better provider?

Have you just managed to blame the fact his tennant is a torrent hore on VM?
 
Turn off uPnpP on the router and make sure she doesn't have admin access to it.

Her P2P should be pretty slow if she can't accept incoming connections. Of course this may break things you haven't explicitly given NAT rules to. And it won't help if she's using NGs.
 
My housemate is the same. He pretended to be dopey about it so I constantly kept switching the router on and off until he stopped (he'd have to go back onto the bottom of download queues..I never told him about other means of downloading lol).

Yeah - the broadband is in your name - therefore use goes by your rules :)
 
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