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Me and my flat mate share a 10mb Virgin cable connection (I am the bill payer), however I find at times he is hogging the bandwidth (to the extent that web pages take a while to load for me) and was wondering if any of you IT experts know a way to limit his bandwidth usage?

I've spent a few hours looking into it myself and not really got anywhere. I've read about QoS, although I'm not sure my router has this (can't see it in the options) and tried a couple of bandwidth manager programs which I cant seem to get to work.

It's really frustrating and beginning to annoy me now... :annoyed:

:help:

Thanks,
Craig.
 
You could set up a ISA server. That'd do the job. A little overkill though :lol:

Neil's right, you should try talking to him, failing that just change passwords and kick him off.
 
Yeh spoke to him a while ago bout it. Was just wondering if there was an easier way of both doing our own thing at the same time, rather than having to wait until the other is finished downloading/online gaming or whatever. It doesn't happen all the time, just annoying when it does. I'll maybe just put up with it for now, flat lease runs out soon anyway and will be moving elsewhere.
 
Any solution will have to be router based without over complicating the hardware side of things...

What he doing that will hog the bandwidth on a 10meg connection?

If its anything dodgy YOU will be responsible for his actions as its your connection and he's using it with your permission / knowledge :eek:
 
Are you aware that Virgin Media operate a fair use policy that throttles your connection if you download too much data in a given period.

Have a look HERE

So it could be this that is causing your slow connection if he's downloading lots of data first.

And it does operate like a switch at the cut off point, one second 10MB then zap 2.5MB.:(

HTH

David
 
Chillimonster said:
Any solution will have to be router based without over complicating the hardware side of things...

What he doing that will hog the bandwidth on a 10meg connection?

If its anything dodgy YOU will be responsible for his actions as its your connection and he's using it with your permission / knowledge :eek:
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Yeh, might have to upgrade my router at some point then. Shame as its a Wireless G+ (125mbps) one as well (both connected on wireless). That actually brings to mind another question... I have a Wireless G+ adapter in for my PC, but I think his laptop only has standard built in G, should I not be getting a faster speed than him?

Not 100% sure what he's downloading, dont like to continually ask him... uses it for iplayer, youtube, maybe downloading TV episodes etc I think

Willid1 said:
Are you aware that Virgin Media operate a fair use policy that throttles your connection if you download too much data in a given period.

Have a look HERE

So it could be this that is causing your slow connection if he's downloading lots of data first.

And it does operate like a switch at the cut off point, one second 10MB then zap 2.5MB.:(

HTH

David
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Yeh, know about this too although I dont think it's this but you never know... I say that cause sometimes I download large amounts of data for a period of time myself (addons for a game for example) and never notice a slow down after. I usually do this in the morning/night though.
 
If hes torrenting, he can cap the download speed of each torrent
Can also cap the upload speed

10mb is a decent connection, just speak to him again....it will be far easier than messing about with QoS which may mean a new router
 
My money will be on him saturating your upload with torrents rather than download, this has a nasty habit of slowing internet connections to a crawl and is especially problematic on the non-symetrical systems we all use.
 
I had this when my eldest son came back home after he lost his flat, the result of a girlfriend split.
He was downloading films and music illegally hogging bandwidth etc. I asked him to stop, but he persisted, after several warnings I went into the router wireless settings and changed the access key, stopped him dead.
Got a bit of grief over it but explained the rules :rules: and a bit of finger wagging from me sorted. I restored his connection three days later.:lol:

Moral of the story............ don't mess with the old man, retribution will be swift.:bat:
 
the scheduler thing works like a treat I only let i run 2AM-6AM and it gets everything I want, could easily throttle it back to 4-6 if I felt the need.

remember to disable dht when its turned off as the dht is what makes more of a difference to performance and usability than the caps do, i think its the way my provider throttles
 
a1ex2001 said:
My money will be on him saturating your upload with torrents rather than download, this has a nasty habit of slowing internet connections to a crawl and is especially problematic on the non-symetrical systems we all use.
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Yup, especially if you connect to many peers, it's forever creating and tearing down new connections to different seeds. Get him to limit uploads to 20Kbps and seee how that goes, it should be very hard to saturate a 10 Mbit connection on downloads unless he's downloading several torrents that have many seeds available (e.g. current episodes of popular US TV shows) at the same time.
 
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