How to limit downloads for other network users?

wildheart · 10 Jan 2007 at 14:47

Hi all i have a bit of a family problem. We have just moved to a new internet provider which is limited, The problem is my younger bro has learnt the wonders of P2P and torrent downloading and is absolutely killing our internet and monthly download limit hitting about 4GB a day :eek:

So i need to somehow place a limit on the amount he can download to about 50MB a day

i have had a look at netlimiter but that seems way over complicated for what i want. Unfortunatly my router cannot limit the quantity of traffic either so does anyone have any idea of the simplest way to limit the amount he can download from the internet?

Thanks all

p.s also there is a good change i might be upgrading our ADSL modem/router
soon so does anyone know of one that comes with full admin options to limit downloads based on the users IP's / MAC code -- My current one can only limit the time you can access the internet not the amount you can download

Pint · 10 Jan 2007 at 14:59

Your fist, his face?
Quite cheap too

wildheart · 10 Jan 2007 at 15:05

good but that would only encourage him :rolleyes:

Sp00n · 10 Jan 2007 at 15:46

Upgrade to a router compatible with ddwrt or "like" firmware.

ie: linksys wrt54g

tolien · 10 Jan 2007 at 15:50

Without changing the router, you're limited to something installed on his machine, and netlimiter's about as simple as it gets.

ie: linksys wrt54g

You'd need an ADSL modem to go with it, and I'd probably go for a WRT54GL now, but that's about as good an option as you're likely to get unless you want to either fork out some serious money or find a spare machine to run IPCop/Smoothwall et al.

wildheart · 10 Jan 2007 at 22:36

thanks for the advice, just curious i have a Linksys WAG54G (one of the original models) and was looking at the DDWRT firmware for it, but wasnt sure if it was worth upgrading. Does the DDWRT firmware allow me to limit the amount a user downloads then?

If not then i guess netlimiter it is

tolien · 10 Jan 2007 at 22:45

AFAIK you can't put DD-WRT on a WAG54G, but yes the firmware will do it.

BassPunk · 11 Jan 2007 at 16:45

On my Router the 'Asus WL500g' I used 'Wondershaper' to limit the WAN port(connection to cable modem) to 90% of the available upload speed.

Im still testing it but with multiple p2p apps all maxing out the upload available, web browsing is very responsive and pings are still very low as though nothing is using the network :eek:

I was using netlimiter on my download machine but Its now been bettered