QOS on a shared network

Muso

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Hello guys

I'm currently sharing a 10 meg virgin cable connection with 4 other guys. I am quite big on my gaming so ping means a lot to me. Currently playing games is impossible I get lag, spikes and high pings, this must be due to the other chaps downloading, streaming or even browsing.
Anyway after doing some research I've discovered that you can download a firmware called Tomato and load it onto a fairly cheap router such as the Linsys WRT54GL and program some Quality of Service settings.
I was wondering if anyone else has done this and how effective it actually is? I understand the idea of splitting the bandwith but surely the latency is different from the pure "speed"?
Is it going to be worth spending time/effort messing around trying to get this sorted or should I just buy another connection?

Cheers
 
Not from an technical point of view but an ethical one:

Depending on your arrangements in the house, if the other lads are paying equal shares they are all entitled to 20% of the connection. Might cause a bit of a rift if you start cutting there video streaming so you can get some good pings.
 
Umm, tomatos qos doesn't split bandwidth between users (that raf mods does that) it simply puts latency sensitive traffic at the top of the transmit list. It is very much worth doing, provided the upload is sufficient. Honestly, if i was sharing with 4 other people

I'd be on the 20meg line at least just for a reasonable upload speed. Your problem though, is almost certainly virgins throttling and the only way to escape that is the 50meg line, which you should seriously consider. The down side to that is a 54gl cant keep up with heavy qos + high connections at that speed i.e. you'd need to buy a better router.

From an ethical viewpoint he's paying for 20% of the connection but can't use it effectively. Rift already present :)
 
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Thanks for the replies.

Azuse05, what do you mean the RAF MODS? Could you please pass me some information on it please as I've not heard of it.
I just want to give my gaming priority over everything else surely this isn't rocket science? I'm happy to cap torrents to hell if needs be.

Cheers
 
Figured it out for myself, installed victeks tomato mod on a Linksys WRT54GL and simply added the mac address of the xbox in a rule which sais to take all the bandwith it needs 100% priority.
To the guy who mentioned it unfair me capping people to have a nice ping, please correct me if I'm wrong but online gaming uses very little bandwith and shouldn't affect web browsing or video streaming too much?

Can anyone comment on setting up class of services for IP addys vs MAC addresses?

surely its a hell of a lot easier to just use a MAC address as it is static and requires no more messing around, whereas you have to configure a static IP.

Cheers
 
I have set my Qos up (probably the wrong way) but I have 4 classes.

A : My PC + Xbox and my laptop when its wired - 100% in and out
B : My laptop Wireless, My dads computer - 60% download, 60% upload
C : My sisters laptop, My ipod, my friends ipods - 40% download 50% upload
D : Printer and an other really low bandwidth things - 10% download 10% upload

Works great and means that no one can ever make me lag, appart from me :L
 
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