limiting bandwidth

[Vince Noir]

anyone know how ?


i have a really bad 5 mbps down and 400kbps up. my ping for online games is about 40-60ms at best, (although games always put me into 100ms lobbies)

the moment a housemate fires up a webpage or something, i get horrid lag spikes. worst offender is the fucking student squatter in my house that has no job and sits watching tv shows like big bang theory, all, fucking, day



i have already put a limit on the wireless to 5kbps up and 150kbps (roughly 1 meg speed), yet every time he is online i still can't use the internet. i have even set traffic mapping classes, and assigned his IP to the lowest (10% of bandwidth), yet it just doesn't seem to work

the only other thing i can think of is to continually turn the wireless on and off for 5mins at a time, but this is rather puerile and isn't practical. i have asked him to download overnight instead of streaming, but he doesn't seem to take the hint

any suggestions ?

[majordom]

stop watching so much online porn

[ATTMFKH]

knock fuck out of him , lazy cunt

[Vince Noir]

stop watching so much online porn

no

knock fuck out of him , lazy cunt

as much as id like to, its not really going to be the best option

[roberdy]

change the fricken wireless password and tell him if he doesn't shape up he can fuck off.

[Kamikaze]

What make/model router have you got?

[swiggy]

fucking student squatter in my house that has no job

Pot meet kettle

i have already put a limit on the wireless to 5kbps up and 150kbps (roughly 1 meg speed), yet every time he is online i still can't use the internet. i have even set traffic mapping classes, and assigned his IP to the lowest (10% of bandwidth), yet it just doesn't seem to work

Thats weird, what sort of speeds do you usually get? You rarely get the advertised speed, is 150kbps still taking up most of your bandwidth? Is he being allocated a different IP every time he connects to the router, so the traffic mapping isn't applied?

[Vince Noir]

What make/model router have you got?

orange bright box. has quality of service functions but they don't seem to work

change the fricken wireless password and tell him if he doesn't shape up he can fuck off.

not quite as simple as that as he pays for it. if i accuse him of using all the bandwidth, he denies it, and its not like i can go onto his laptop and check every 5 minutes

fucking student squatter in my house that has no job

Pot meet kettle

Thats weird, what sort of speeds do you usually get? You rarely get the advertised speed, is 150kbps still taking up most of your bandwidth? Is he being allocated a different IP every time he connects to the router, so the traffic mapping isn't applied?

ha. i am working 5-6 days a week. he is not at uni, says he's trying to restart his art degree next year, has no job, does fuck all and wants to claim housing benefits etc

i normally get 3-4 meg down and 300kb up...but like i say, my ping goes through the roof really easily if someone else is online..i can deal with it to a point, but as you can imagine, online real time applications suffer when you ping is 600ms and jitter is around 50ms .

it gets to the point where i can't even open web pages anymore. his IP is static and i assigned the traffic mapping to that IP, yet whenever its just me and him connected to the router I'm still unable to do anything..i dropped the wireless limiting down to 50kbs down last night, and it still seems like he has all the bandwidth..the other thing is that its only him who hasn't complained that they can't connect etc

[Kamikaze]

I've just had a quick shufty on the net, and you aren't the only person thats moaning about the brightbox. The qos only appears to apply to the wifi part rather than the adsl it'self, which I'd have said made it next best to useless.

if "any" traffic is going down the line it will affect your ping response, I have a similar speed line at home, and I usually wind up in games with the 70-100ms crowd (usually french!).

The trouble with qos is that whilst it is quite at controlling outbound traffic, it's not so good at controlling inbound, whilst some routers can control this its never as effective as outbound control.

Your best bet is buy a router that has proper qos. the Linksys ones are pretty good, but most of the mid range brands should do what you want. you'd also have the advantage of being able to put the ps3 in a dmz, which makes modern warefare behave better.


Assuming you are still in york, one of the exchanges has been upgraded to superfast, that should sort all your probs if you can get it. stick your phone number in here - >> http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker if FTTC is on the list, ask orange if you can upgrade.

[Vince Noir]

ah bt have gotten round to my exchange at last. bet you orange won't do shit, and my contract ends in october anyway


the qos does only relate to the wireless function (this chap uses wireless, everyone else uses wired). i have all my ports forwarded for the games i play...looks like i will have to wait to move out and get a place with better internet and housemates!

[Kamikaze]

Orange just resell the BT superfast and rebrand it, so if BT can supply it the Orange should be able to.


Try and get a place as close to the exchange as possible next time. It's postcode is YO1 7NT

the qos does only relate to the wireless function (this chap uses wireless, everyone else uses wired). i have all my ports forwarded for the games i play...looks like i will have to wait to move out and get a place with better internet and housemates!

and they are probably saying the same about you!