help my with network stuff

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firstly im looking to put a cap on my brothers interent, he has been suing some download software called Azures or something like that and im pretty sure that its that that has been mucking with my net these last few days. Is there something i can do to limit his download speed with only having access to the router by typing in the IP thing address and signing in. The router is a Linksys BEFSR81 if that helps.

For a long time now i have had problems with my interent connection as it keeps cutting out when im downloading something for more then a few mintues and the only way get it back is to either restart the computer or to unplug the connection at the back of my pc and replug it in. someone here suggested it my be the router which kills the connection it if gets above a certain speed, but i have found out that i am the only one that has this problem as i tested it by downloading vista on my brothers computer and his did it fine where as mine cuts out after a few minutes, its different times everytime. It happens when downloading information by anything, emule, IE, FF, whilst watching a Googlevideo that is long like 30minutes long, after watching it for 30 seconds i can loose the net.

Im pretty sure it aint no spyware or virus as i reguaryl check for both, though i only have avast virus checker so may be really good virus.

The computer is new since febuary and was built by myself, first time. there was a time when it was ok but since roughly june it stopped.

This network is a home network with 5 pc's connected to it.

anyone care to guess what i can do?

also someone once posted a interent speed test thing that just downloads a small file or something like that ,there is a picutre of the globe in like black and white which tells you the speed and latency and whatever, can anyone point me to it?

thanks all
 
If possible, to onto his PC and load up Azureus, then go to the Tools / Options menu.

Here select the 'Transfer' tab, and find a section called 'Global connections allowed' I think by default it's set to unlimited, causing your router to be bombarded with connections from other users, causing it to fail.. set this to a sensible limit like 100 (most home routers can handle up to around 250 connections at any one point I think)

While you're here, limit his allowed upload bandwidth to a sensible amount too, something like 5-10KB/sec

With these settings he will still be able to use the program, without having 'too' much of an effect on the network.

Of course, using p2p by nature is going to cause some stress over the network..

As for bandwidth restriction etc; some of the Linksys modules support third party firmware that would allow you to implement some sort of Quality of Service.. however you need to read up about the tech as it's hardly something that is easy to implement correctly.
 
Most Bit Torrent clients are very good at saturating the uplink and this has the effect of totally killing other Internet activity. You can cap Azureus's uplink speed quite simply in Azures (say you have 32k you cap him at 16k or 24k) and you should both be happy, but I don't think that's the issue here, the drop out's are probably due to the fact that some routers struggle with large numbers of simultaneous connections so limiting them as well may improve the situation but all of the above will most likely reduce his download speeds.

Only real solution is buy a new router :(
 
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why don't you setup QOS on the router?
I saw that your model supports it.

Not sure how good it will be but you should be able to cap your brother’s bandwidth and make more available for yourself.
 
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