Limit bandwidth on a computer

Swansen

Swansen

The Ninj
If i can't do this through the router i have another machine that doesn't do anything so i can use that as a router. Ok, back story, my little brother and i pay for internet (lately i have been paying the bill) and its getting really annoying, he never remembers to give me his half on time or at all, and then he is constantly on some p2p service and all that junk, so its always using up bandwidth. Anyways, i'm going to give him the bandwidth he's paying for.

router is D-Link DGL-4300 broadband gaming router
 
after doing a bit (not very much at all) got this software solution, however, i think you should be able to achieve it with a machine as a router but i don't know how

BTW: doing a bit more googling

Edit: heres a *nix how to using a system as a router
 
he is constantly on some p2p service and all that junk
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Maybe, just maybe Swansen, we have the same brother. My bro again is constantly on download servers. Does my head in, really gets my lag up on online games. The best thing is he completely denies it and blames it on the provider. Strange how it never happens when he's not here.
 
How about try setting the offenders NIC to 10mbs half duplex, might make enough of a bottleneck? :D
 
Addis said:
Or you could ban his mac address from the router, so no internet at all!
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HAHA, lol, yeah.... maybe in a perfect world, but no, i've found an app that i can use to limit bandwidth, so i'm going to have to mess around with that.
 
Swansen said:
HAHA, lol, yeah.... maybe in a perfect world, but no, i've found an app that i can use to limit bandwidth, so i'm going to have to mess around with that.
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Sorry, but you need a much better router to do traffic shaping or bandwidth accounting. A plastic, home grade-router will never do that. You'd either have to buy a $10,000 corporate router, or else build your own using Linux or BSD. You can guess which of these options I recommend. :) Even a pre-fab Linux firewall like IPCop can do bandwidth accounting with the help of plugins, so the latter isn't difficult anyway. And it can do traffic-shaping 'right out of the box', so to speak.
 
Anti-Trend said:
Sorry, but you need a much better router to do traffic shaping or bandwidth accounting. A plastic, home grade-router will never do that. You'd either have to buy a $10,000 corporate router, or else build your own using Linux or BSD. You can guess which of these options I recommend. :) Even a pre-fab Linux firewall like IPCop can do bandwidth accounting with the help of plugins, so the latter isn't difficult anyway. And it can do traffic-shaping 'right out of the box', so to speak.
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wait, no one said anything about a router, and from what i've read, as long as your router supports the right QoS its something like feasible. Anyways, yeah, i found a bunch of apps for windows as well, haven't really found much for Linux. Anti-Trend, you have to remember, i'm mostly a newbie as far as Linux goes, i'm sure its a little more than difficult to set all that up on a Linux box. (:chk: but who knows, i might just use my current box as long as i found ooorr was given a nice little write-up)
 
Swansen said:
wait, no one said anything about a router, and from what i've read, as long as your router supports the right QoS its something like feasible. Anyways, yeah, i found a bunch of apps for windows as well, haven't really found much for Linux. Anti-Trend, you have to remember, i'm mostly a newbie as far as Linux goes, i'm sure its a little more than difficult to set all that up on a Linux box. (:chk: but who knows, i might just use my current box as long as i found ooorr was given a nice little write-up)
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QoS and traffic shaping are different but similar concepts. QoS is helpful, but may or may not give the results you're after, depending on the capabilities of the router.

As for the writeup, thanks for the suggestion. I actually do have quite a few writeups bouncing around in my head. I was even thinking about possibly making some video-based tutorials and hosting them on youtube. Unfortunately, I don't have the time at present, since I'm the lead sysadmin getting a startup IT company off the ground. When I have time though, I plan on getting some useful stuff posted.
 
Anti-Trend said:
As for the writeup, thanks for the suggestion. I actually do have quite a few writeups bouncing around in my head. I was even thinking about possibly making some video-based tutorials and hosting them on youtube. Unfortunately, I don't have the time at present, since I'm the lead sysadmin getting a startup IT company off the ground. When I have time though, I plan on getting some useful stuff posted.
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thats the coolest.. pretty much all of it, but especially the write-up parts.
 
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