Network Priority?

Thomas. PLease. · 9 Oct 2007 at 14:29

Right, so recently me and some friends moved into our new university house. During the day a lot of us are using the internet a fair bit.

We have a virgin 20mb connection which shared between 6 people is usually perfectly adequate. However one of my housemates has decided its fine to download at 1.3mbps or similar during the day, leaving the rest of the house with feeble internet which can barely stream video, etc. We've tried talking to him saying its not acceptable, but he won;t listen.

So rant over, i was just wondering if there is any software or hardware solution to gaining priority over his traffic? or even a solution to cap his download/upload.

Thanks tom.

Sp00n · 9 Oct 2007 at 14:59

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT

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Linksys WRT54G Router

You can put all kinds of limits on people, i love it

Thomas. PLease. · 9 Oct 2007 at 15:06

Sp00n said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT

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Linksys WRT54G Router

You can put all kinds of limits on people, i love it

We already used a wired 8 port linksys router, is it possible to put that firmware on it, or can it only be used with a wireless linksys router?

Sp00n · 9 Oct 2007 at 15:06

What model is the one you have?

Thomas. PLease. · 9 Oct 2007 at 15:09

Sp00n said:
What model is the one you have?

BEFSR81 according to the number on the front

Sp00n · 9 Oct 2007 at 15:17

From what i can tell its not supported

You could setup a smoothwall or an ipcop machine, use the linksys as a switch but use the smoothwall/ipcop box for dhcp/packet shaping etc...

Do you have a spare pc?

Thomas. PLease. · 9 Oct 2007 at 15:20

Sp00n said:
From what i can tell its not supported

You could setup a smoothwall or an ipcop machine, use the linksys as a switch but use the smoothwall/ipcop box for dhcp/packet shaping etc...

Do you have a spare pc?

Nope

Sp00n · 9 Oct 2007 at 15:25

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/review.asp?pid=300

Get the latest firmware and you can set the QoS on the port from what i can see there, set him to low priority and set everyone else to high, it will give everyone elses traffic priority over his (or in theory).

Gaz1988 · 9 Oct 2007 at 15:32

Tell him to get his own connection if hes doing that. easy