Allocating Bandwidth

[jmxthievez]

So recently, my housemates have moved into my house which shares one connection and one router. Last night I was playing poker with a huge fish when my internet connection basically crapped out and I couldn't play. Until I figured out one of my floormates was hogging the bandwidth and I go to his room to find the bastard downloading like 50 torrents. I insta-shut off his computer and go back to play but the fish had already busted [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] ugh.

So I am wondering if there is anyway around this to either
a) allocate more bandwidth of this router to myself
b) cap his bandwidth at a certain level.

I say this because most of my housemates only use the internet to check email or whatever and it should be fine and obv its unfair him to hog all the bandwidth downloading movies. So is there a solution or a program that would do this? Or would I really need my own accout/connection?

[Freakin]

Look into Quality of Service (QoS) on your router

[jmxthievez]

Where do I find that? Sorry, a noob here, is that software? Where can I access that?

[Freakin]

Generally it's a setting on your router. So you'd access your router at 192.168.1.1 or whatever it is, and look in advanced settings for QoS. You can then specify which devices (computers) you want to apply QoS to. Then you can specify that your computer receives a certain minimum requirement of service (bandwidth) and it should automatically allocate that to you when your computer requests any traffic.

[egordo877]

another solution would be to ask him to cap the upload and download speeds on his BT client. (if you can trust him to do that, of course) Some clients like Azureus have auto speed limit features that, when turned on, will automatically keep downloads from clogging a network, perhaps you can get him to use that.