ffs - housemates raping the bandwidth

Van Hellseek · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:00

ok, my new housemates are taking the **** with the bandwidth... the worst part is that they're not paying anything for it yet, because it's the tail end of my old contract with is being cancelled in a few days. So really i shouldn't even be letting them use it at all.

is there any way i can limit their access? i dont want to stop them from using it - i just want it to give me priority, as i'm the only one paying for this atm.

meghatronic · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:00

seek said:
ok, my new housemates are taking the **** with the bandwidth... the worst part is that they're not paying anything for it yet, because it's the tail end of my old contract with is being cancelled in a few days. So really i should even be letting them use it at all.

is there any way i can limit their access? i dont want to stop them from using it - i just want it to give me priority, as i'm the only one paying for this atm.

Something that I did was to close all the ports and only open 'my' ones on the router... limited their bandwith to say 5-20kbps max whilst I got 600.... mean but I paid the bill.

Van Hellseek · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:01

jdickerson said:
Something that I did was to close all the ports and only open 'my' ones on the router... limited their bandwith to say 5-20kbps max whilst I got 600.... mean but I paid the bill.

sounds interesting, but i know nothing about routers at all... how do i do this?

meghatronic · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:04

seek said:
sounds interesting, but i know nothing about routers at all... how do i do this?

it'll be in the admin of the router (could be anything from http://10.0.0.1 to http://192.168.2.1). On my old one you just port forward the ports you want to use and enable the hardware firewall.

If you post the make/model of your router, we should be able to help.

Visage · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:05

seek said:
ok, my new housemates are taking the **** with the bandwidth... the worst part is that they're not paying anything for it yet, because it's the tail end of my old contract with is being cancelled in a few days. So really i shouldn't even be letting them use it at all.

is there any way i can limit their access? i dont want to stop them from using it - i just want it to give me priority, as i'm the only one paying for this atm.

The best way is to say to them 'Any chance that you can cut down on your bandwidth usage?'

Contraversial, but it might just work.....

locutus12 · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:06

seek said:
ok, my new housemates are taking the **** with the bandwidth... the worst part is that they're not paying anything for it yet, because it's the tail end of my old contract with is being cancelled in a few days. So really i shouldn't even be letting them use it at all.

is there any way i can limit their access? i dont want to stop them from using it - i just want it to give me priority, as i'm the only one paying for this atm.

http://www.netlimiter.com/download.php for all your traffic shaping needs.

locutus12 · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:09

to the O.P. if you get that program, let me know how it works out for you

VaderDSL · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:10

we had to do a bodge job on our network to sort out bandwidth

basically we have my pc and my friends hooked up bt cat53 direct to the router, from the router we have a pc running xp connected, and into the pc we have an apple wireless router connected to a second NIC, with bandwidth monitoring and limiting on the NIC connected to the airport router

Van Hellseek · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:11

Visage said:
The best way is to say to them 'Any chance that you can cut down on your bandwidth usage?'

Contraversial, but it might just work.....

ok, you've clearly never shared a house with girls!

from the conversations i've had with them about the net, i really don't think they even know what bandwidth is.

i'll take a look at the make/model of router and post it.

no idea about admin though... didn't even know you could access that kind of thing. yes i realise that makes me almost as bad as them...

just out of interest... if you can access the admin stuff, does that mean you can tell what the other people are up to on the net? :eek:

meghatronic · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:11

VaderDSL said:
we had to do a bodge job on our network to sort out bandwidth

basically we have my pc and my friends hooked up bt cat53 direct to the router, from the router we have a pc running xp connected, and into the pc we have an apple wireless router connected to a second NIC, with bandwidth monitoring and limiting on the NIC connected to the airport router

LOL! That is quite a bodge job... still.... if it works

locutus12 · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:12

SEEK, try that program... pleeeeeeease

electric ant · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:15

Visage said:
The best way is to say to them 'Any chance that you can cut down on your bandwidth usage?'

Contraversial, but it might just work.....

Because we all know forwarding ports and changing router settings is far more 733t :cool:

skinnyl · 9 Oct 2006 at 23:44

www.clarkconnect.com

Used this linux distro at uni and it was a saviour. Does some cool stuff to boot..

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 10 Oct 2006 at 05:47

If youre closing ports don't forget to turn of UPnP which otherwise will just open them again.

BigBoy · 10 Oct 2006 at 08:01

Get yourself an old PC and setup Smoothwall or IPcop (linux distros) very easy to get going and have rules for each mac addresse bandwith limited sorted

Mr. Brightside · 10 Oct 2006 at 08:15

Or m0n0wall, been using it for over half a year now and I love it

www.m0n0.ch/wall

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PieMaster · 10 Oct 2006 at 10:37

locutus12 said:
SEEK, try that program... pleeeeeeease

You'd have to install it on all of thier machines, so if they closed it you'd be back to square 1 anyway.

Most new-ish routers come with QoS, set your port as top priority and thiers / the wireless as lower.

dozer · 10 Oct 2006 at 10:40

i had this problem and just closed the peer to peer ports they were using. anything else you will need a special router or a complex setup.