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I have 50mb broadband which I pay for every month and I am letting my mate share the connection, both machines use Ethernet to connect.

Because I pay for the broadband, and I dont want to stop him using the internet, how can I restrict Port 2 (which his ethernet is connected to) download speed/limit as I dont want him downloading massive files to kill my speed as I do a lot of online gaming...

Is this possible?

I have Virgin's Netgear router.

Thanks in advance...
 
Tell your mate to get the rent out!

I've seen bandwidth limiting features in business modem routers (2wire iirc) but not in home appliences. Sure it must be possible though but you'll likely have to buy a specific router to do the job
 
d_brennen said:
Tell your mate to get the rent out!

I've seen bandwidth limiting features in business modem routers (2wire iirc) but not in home appliences. Sure it must be possible though but you'll likely have to buy a specific router to do the job
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What about a program to monitor how much usage im using via my router?
Because he is connected to my router, I want to be able to view how much he uses.

I have Broadband Download Monitor installed on my PC, and it tells me how much I'm using, but I want to know how much is being used in total, mine and his pc together through the traffic which goes through my router...is this possible? then I can work out exactly how much is being used when I'm at work...
 
J.B said:
I would suggest getting a Linksys WRT54G or GL and put tomato on it, will do what you need.
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I believe it was 2wire routers running tomato which I saw with the bandwidth limiting settings.

OP, if you were to limit your mates activity, what's to stop him swapping Ethernet cables to continue torrenting or whatever else? You'd really need fixed IPs and limiting via IP or MAC address.

Iirc if you have cable to your building you can get a second internet connection without much bother. I think VM charge about £10 for the basic internet package.
 
so i'm guessing he will get full access to my 50mb connection then with no way of me limiting HIS connection and not mine?
 
J.B said:
I would suggest getting a Linksys WRT54G or GL and put tomato on it, will do what you need.
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What he said ;)
I can see EXACALY who is using what, I can lock them down, ristrict there bandwith and do a plethora of very cool things.
 
I have a WRT54GL, they are amazing, I limit everyone else to below 50% through the QoS :) But I dont think many of them have the horse power to do 50meg throughput?
 
Ryan111 said:
I have a WRT54GL, they are amazing, I limit everyone else to below 50% through the QoS :) But I dont think many of them have the horse power to do 50meg throughput?
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They don't. A wrt54gl has trouble around the 30Mb mark according to those who tried to use it with a 50Mb connection.
 
Venares said:
Funny, mine copes just fine on 50mb.
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I'm not sure why. According to wikipedia both GL versions have the same clock speed so I'm not sure why yours would work when everything I've seen says they don't reliably reach 50Mb. Unless you are using the stock firmware that is, but I don't know anyone who buys a wrt54gl to use stock firmware :p.The stock firmware is shown to have better WAN - LAN throughput than tomato or dd-wrt, but unfortuantly it sucks in terms of features.
 
Well just did some rather exstensive testing and it would seem you are correct Dist.
With QoS on it chokes.
QoS off and its quite happy however, although the CPU load is on the high side.

Any recomendations for a router that has QoS (silly people with webcams and such) and wont gag as soon as I put a torrent near it?
 
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The gl cpu is 200mhz, if over-clocked to 250mhz it simply can't handle anything other than data at 50meg with high connections/heavy qos. Not that it matters since the wifi can't handle 50meg :P

I pointed you towards the tomato build installable on the virgin supplied router however that router was only recently added, so unless you know how to unbrick/recover from a failed flash it's probably not worth it. Leave it to the people who do to fully test it.

Failing that you want one Asus RT-N16 as a first choice or a Netgear WNR3500L/WNR3500 v2 as second. Netgears are £15-£20 cheaper but have half the ram of the N16 and lack detachable antennas. Also with teddy bears build.
 
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