Way to stop brother leeching ALL my bandwidth?

Salsa · 15 Jun 2010 at 22:58

Have a quick question about iPlayer. My brother uses it a lot and as soon as he starts iPlayer up my ping rockets up to 500-4000ms and stays there until he turns it off. Now im wondering if there is any way for me to limit the ammount of bandwidth iPlayer will use or limit the ammount of bandwidth allocated to his machine?

This is a problem for anyone on the network and general internet usage grinds to a halt for the rest of us while he uses iPlayer. I dont want to go down the route of telling him to stop using it but maybe limiting things a bit so he can still watch it without screwing the rest of the network.

Using a bog standard homehub 2.0 with 8meg BB as i live out in the sticks :rolleyes:

paradigm · 15 Jun 2010 at 23:16

Restricting use of bandwidth != reducing ping.

Camoe · 18 Jun 2010 at 00:09

Bandwith Allocation.. google it you will find a lot

you could grind him into bytes

Yakyb · 18 Jun 2010 at 10:40

have a read about Qos

Chicken #16 · 18 Jun 2010 at 10:52

i think the iplayer is a little like bittorent and you have to opt out of sharing. He might have already done this but certainly worth trying

Participant · 18 Jun 2010 at 11:34

paradigm said:
Restricting use of bandwidth != reducing ping.

Of course they're not the same, but a reduction in bandwidth can obviously increase ping as data packets have to wait longer to be sent.

DiscoDave · 18 Jun 2010 at 12:26

paradigm said:
Restricting use of bandwidth != reducing ping.

In most cases, this is true. But if either the entire upload or download bandwidth is consumed from a single host then others will be effected. I've had this problem when I've been sharing my internet connection.

OP: You can download applications for windows that restrict his usage, but of course that will depend on if you can trust him not to turn it off.

Sp00n · 18 Jun 2010 at 12:41

Install netlimiter for him, you don't have to give him a **** poor speed, just enough so that it doesn't affect anyone else.

It will be obvious if he disables it and if its affecting everyone else then I'm sure they will have something to say about it as well.

Moeks · 18 Jun 2010 at 16:17

You say you are on 8Mb broadband, out in the sticks ...so the chances of you actually getting 8Mb are ...slim, any idea what you really get ? ...you could have low enough real bandwidth that using iplayer and doing much else is going to be tricky.

Dazza_Random · 18 Jun 2010 at 21:05

Chicken #16 said:
i think the iplayer is a little like bittorent and you have to opt out of sharing. He might have already done this but certainly worth trying

I player is NOT P2P is a single download and no sharing involved