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my brother uses up all the bandwidth

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needthathelp

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he spends all day downloading movies, shows and streams videos. often playing games as well. he is directly connected to the router>modem while i am still connected through wireless. what can i do besides destroying his computer? anything i can do with my isp?
 
drop a tip to the RIAA and MPAA?;)

depending on the firmware on your router you can change the speed of his line, block ip's of streaming sites and close down torrent ports
 
Set the priorities in the admin panel of the router. Several ways to fix that in there all the way up to and including killing his connection at a certain time. :laugh:
 
Phxprovost said:
drop a tip to the RIAA and MPAA?;)

depending on the firmware on your router you can change the speed of his line, block ip's of streaming sites and close down torrent ports
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i'll think about dropping the tip :D
but is there anything i can do that would allow both of us to use the internet just as fast besides upgrading my service or is that the only way to go?
 
needthathelp said:
i'll think about dropping the tip :D
but is there anything i can do that would allow both of us to use the internet just as fast besides upgrading my service or is that the only way to go?
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thing about upgrading to a better service, his downloads are just going to scale to that increase of bandwidth....so your gonna be paying more just to be in the same position
 
go tell you mommy :o
 
If you have the login credentials to the router you can setup priorites like altered said. just get his MAC address and yours and setup how much upload and download speeds both PCs can run
 
^doubt my parents care. :p

Phxprovost said:
thing about upgrading to a better service, his downloads are just going to scale to that increase of bandwidth....so your gonna be paying more just to be in the same position
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would it be the same story if i directly connected to the router?
 
needthathelp said:
^doubt my parents care. :p



would it be the same story if i directly connected to the router?
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yes. go to IP chicken...that is your IP. now log into router. their should be a section for internet usuage times. if its just you and your bro. their will be 2 ip's yours and his. next to his start blocking his ass.
 
Solaris17 said:
yes. go to IP chicken...that is your IP. now log into router. their should be a section for internet usuage times. if its just you and your bro. their will be 2 ip's yours and his. next to his start blocking his ass.
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he needs his internal ip bro :toast:

Open command prompt and enter ipconfig
 
Im not familiar with that type of router.

Check to see what your default gateway is by typing "ipconfig /all" at the command prompt
 
What is the exact model number of your router? I know you don't know it. Go pick it up and check.

All you need here is some decent QoS rules. Basically, you tell the router to put all of your internet traffic as high priority and/or all of his traffic as low priority. Then it doesn't matter what he does, the router makes sure your traffic goes through, even if that cuts into your brother's traffic. (which is what you want.)

I ask about the model number, because I want to know if your router supports alternative firmwares, like Tomato or DD-WRT. I know that Tomato has the QoS feature and I'm pretty sure DD-WRT has it too. And you can put a password on the router too just in case he figures this out. ;)
 
angelkiller said:
What is the exact model number of your router? I know you don't know it. Go pick it up and check.

All you need here is some decent QoS rules. Basically, you tell the router to put all of your internet traffic as high priority and/or all of his traffic as low priority. Then it doesn't matter what he does, the router makes sure your traffic goes through, even if that cuts into your brother's traffic. (which is what you want.)

I ask about the model number, because I want to know if your router supports alternative firmwares, like Tomato or DD-WRT. I know that Tomato has the QoS feature and I'm pretty sure DD-WRT has it too. And you can put a password on the router too just in case he figures this out. ;)
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belkin wireless G model f5d7230-4
is there a tut on how to change the internet traffic?
 
needthathelp said:
belkin wireless G model f5d7230-4
is there a tut on how to change the internet traffic?
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I'll walk you through it.

One last question, there should be a version number somewhere near the model number. What is it? (I pray it's v3000 or less)
 
how old are you and your brother if you dont mind me asking
 
:p just cut his wire! :p --- to above poster... wow... never thought I'd see someone from that part of Oregon on TPU :roll:
 
Learn about QOS ... set it up and turn on wmm (or WWM) i cant remember what its called but make your mac addy the number 1
and check his clients for ports and throttle the bandwidth i had problems with my dad and porn lmao ... might want to go the smart way and remote in your bros pc might not want to touch the keyboard hahaha
 
Check if router has QOS - quality of service options than you could limit download and upload by IP.
If not than you need bandwidth controller software but in that case your computer must make the connection and than share internet through second LAN card to the router. More difficult and your PC must stay on for other computer to have internet.
 
r9 said:
Check if router has QOS - quality of service options than you could limit download and upload by IP.
If not than you need bandwidth controller software but in that case your computer must make the connection and than share internet through second LAN card to the router. More difficult and your PC must stay on for other computer to have internet.
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LOL i spazed out once and did that to my family but yea it was pretty funny ICS can be very screwy :rockout: but it wasnt with my connection :pimp::respect:
 
if you are feeling sinister and are savvy enough you could write a quick batch file that instantly cuts off your brothers internets at the click of a button :laugh:
 
I used to use a program called "Throttled" on my Mac that really helped in this situation where I shared bandwidth with my roomate. I just set the limit at %50 of our total bandwidth. My computer was never able to use more than half of the bandwidth after that. I'm not sure if there is a Windows program that will work as well but maybe you can search around. Here is one for starters...
http://www.netlimiter.com/
 
i would say it's unlikely he's using it all, one thing that i found with family members whom dl torrents is that they leave the upload speed at a rediculous level in utorrent, my brother has crap dling all the time, and i finally went up and capped it at 100Kb for upload and i've had very little issue. I find myself with 10 or 15 cued torrents at any given time as i'm dlin'g digital copies of the games i have on cd becaues i'm too lazy to rip them myself and to be honest, pirates have been doing it better than i could. P.S. I own these games, just don't want the discs anymores.
 
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