Guest zerodamage August 31, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests August 31, 2004 This is what I've done out of being a nice guy. I hooked up my brother-in-law who lives right near me on my cable via wireless. Now this is my issue. He isn't too smart with computers and I seem to be over there to clean up his spyware more often than not. Now does anyone know of anyway to limit his download and most importantly his upload speeds? Downloads isn't so important as the upload speeds. I do not want him putting on 4 p2p programs and saturating my entire connection with uploading porn. Anyone know of a free utility to do this or some other settings. Dweez? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX August 31, 2004 Share NOFX Member August 31, 2004 I have tried to do this once before when I was sharing my connection with my roomates. The only solution I found was a Linux Router. in the end, I just turned their upload off in their p2p programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random_n00b August 31, 2004 Share random_n00b Member August 31, 2004 Either a router or a good piece of software like Netlimiter (Not free, but I hear that it works really well). If you have a spare piece-of-crap computer and the knowledge, then a Linux router would probably be your best and cheapest option. Also, if he's using Windows XP/2000, you can lock down the startup sections of the registry with read-only access, so the only time the P2P programs are open are when he opens them. None of that start with Windows and suck your bandwidth crap. And for the spyware, give him some good programs like Ares, Shareaza, Soulseek, eDonkey, and Azureus (pay attention to the installers on Ares and eDonkey, though). For good measure, give him Firefox or a really good set of Proxomitron filters too (either one of those can really make the Internet a better place). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage August 31, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests August 31, 2004 Yeah, I saw netlimiter but do not plan on buying anything. I disabled all uploads on his p2p programs, the only one he uses right now is Kazaa Lite. If it gets bad, then he will have to get his own cable access. He doens't do much more than download a few songs here and there and play online poker games. I already installed SP2 for him and cleaned up any spyware. There isn't much more I can do I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox August 31, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member August 31, 2004 Yeah, most SOHO routers don't have bandwidth throttling by connection, that's really I.T.-class network switches and such. I can't do it at work, and we have high-end SOHO stuff. It'd have to be software or a Linux router (if you wanted another hobby), so the best solution is exactly what you did, disable his uploads. If your wireless router is really nice, you might be able to limit his connection speed or mess with the signal strength to throttle his wireless connection speed, that could limit his push/pull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage August 31, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests August 31, 2004 I was really hoping that Dweez had some sort of solution that I over looked. He works with this networking stuff day in and day out. I hoped that maybe there was something within WIn2k / XP that could do this with some configuring but I see nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL September 1, 2004 Share dwEEziL Member September 1, 2004 Something like NetLimiter is they way I would go but you would have to install it on his computer in such a way so that he can not modify it, not sure how that would work. As far as my experience has been, there isn't any builtin bandwidth throttling in W2k/XP/W2k3 that I know of (maybe root around in the registry and you know how fun that can be to fubar). The other option besides a bandwidth throttler is a Linux router like NOFX stated and those can be just as fun to configure if you aren't already experienced with them. Check your PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage September 1, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests September 1, 2004 Something like NetLimiter is they way I would go but you would have to install it on his computer in such a way so that he can not modify it, not sure how that would work. As far as my experience has been, there isn't any builtin bandwidth throttling in W2k/XP/W2k3 that I know of (maybe root around in the registry and you know how fun that can be to fubar). The other option besides a bandwidth throttler is a Linux router like NOFX stated and those can be just as fun to configure if you aren't already experienced with them. Check your PM. Thanks for your help Dweez. I will say that I have an HP Netserver sitting here that I was going to toss out. It has some old version of Linux, is only a Pentium 100 pro and all SCSI. There is only ONE ethernet card in it... I am considering putting in another NIC (or make an attempt to) and see what I can do with it. The slower speed may hurt more than help what I want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL September 1, 2004 Share dwEEziL Member September 1, 2004 How much RAM? You might try getting a CD bootable version of Linux that you can use to set the throttling up with. If so, you need to talk to the Linux gurus here as I am not even familiar enought with Linux to be called a nub yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage September 1, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests September 1, 2004 I am not even familiar enought with Linux to be called a nub yet. I think I fit that category. I used it in the Navy but this was over 5 years ago and my use of Unix/Linux was limited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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