Is this possible

.Kencs

.Kencs

.Kencs

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Virgin Media modem connection to my Netgear router:

My PC = Ethernet to Port 1 in router
Brother-in-laws PC = Ethernet to Port 2 in router

I am using OpenDNS (Thanks to those who recommended it)

It asks for IP addresses when you go to settings...

Now mine says 192.168.1.2
Bother-in-laws says 192.168.1.4

in OpenDNS:

Add a network
IP Address xxx.xxx.x.x

My IP address had to be what I found on What is My IP . com because when I type in 192.168.1.2 and get You cannot add a network in private IP space.

How do I set up settings for 192.168.1.4 if I don't know his IP Address???

Im getting confused :confused:
 
Rainmaker said:
I set my own PC's DNS manually in the config as 4.2.2.3 so I basically bypassed OpenDNS and its filtering settings.
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Can you help me in guiding me around my settings to set that up?

So basically, if he is connected directly to my router, when I go to whatismyip and gives me an 86. IP address, his will be EXACTLY the same?
 
Rainmaker said:
It's really a lot easier than it sounds, I'm just better at understanding this stuff than explaining it in lay terms. LOL Setting your DNS manually is easy peasy, and takes less than 30 seconds. If you're on Vista or 7 then you can follow the guide here. If you're on XP (or even OS X or Linux) then Google is your friend, but it's easy either way.

Manually set the DNS on YOUR machine to server 1: 4.2.2.1 and server 2: 8.8.8.8 (for example). Then set your router to use OpenDNS by following their step by step guide here. Basically manually setting DNS (or IP) on the PC itself over-rides the settings in the router. So, YOUR PC will use a "normal" DNS and won't be subject to the OpenDNS restrictions. Your brother-in-law's PC will connect via OpenDNS (because his PC is set to automatically get DNS info from the router and hasn't been manually configured) and thus he WILL be restricted.

I hope this is of more use to you. It really is quite easy; just follow the guides. :) BTW, I'm really curious as to why you'd need to limit your brother-in-law's PC and not your own. Is he under 18 or something? :D
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Nah he is 21 BUT downloads a lot of movies and with a 50mb connection he will fly trough his downloads an if he gets caught, it's me in trouble, plus he doesn't offer to pay towards the Internet so it's my Internet anyway lol...
 
Rainmaker said:
Perhaps set up QoS on the router, giving priority to yourself for all traffic, torrent type traffic limited to 0.1 kbps) and perhaps he'll give up in frustration?
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THIS is the option I wanted to go down originally but I had no help lol...

I have the following:

Turn Bandwidth Control On = TICKED

Uplink bandwidth Maximum = Mbps

Automatically check Internet Uplink bandwidth

If I enable this won't it effect my connection ASWELL? and what do I put in the Uplink Badwidth?

I also have QoS Priority Rule list and I can add things to the list...advice? lol
 
Just to let u know mate, iv sorted it...assigned a 192.168.1.x number using MAC addresses so mine will always have .2, iPhone .3, wifes phone .4 and when brother-in-law is online I can assign him .5 then when any of the sites iv blocked come up in the log I can see which device tried to access it. Found a Block List and added a lot to my block sites list an works well :)

Thanks for all ya help... :)
 
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