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My roommate takes up all my connections!
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Ok, so here's the issue.
This has been happening for pretty much ever.
My apartment is a bunch of college-student-computer-users (huzzah!) and so we're all constantly on the internet. My roommate (we'll call him dan) likes to torrent stuff, though. He's the only one in the apartment that really does this, and none of us have a problem with it. There's only one problem-- any time his computer is connected to the internet, it presents serious connectivity issues with all the other computers on the network EXCEPT the DMZ host.
It is to the point where every 1-10 minutes, it will time out the game that I am playing, or the messenger service I am using, etc etc. I can't just put myself on DMZ, because there are 3 more of us that all play games and such, blah blah.
I've tried using the router to limit his bandwith and put everyone else on high priority, but that didn't work. It only happens when he's torrenting, though it seems to happen even if his download speeds are low (10kbps both ways, 20 kbps).
I can't figure out how to limit his computer so that he doesn't use up all my megahertz! Is there a way to accomplish this so that we don't have to do something silly like set up times he's allowed to have his downloads running, etc etc?
tl/dr: Roommate taking up all the bandwith with torrenting, i think. HOW I STOP THIS?!
Thank you. Thank you all very much.
This has been happening for pretty much ever.
My apartment is a bunch of college-student-computer-users (huzzah!) and so we're all constantly on the internet. My roommate (we'll call him dan) likes to torrent stuff, though. He's the only one in the apartment that really does this, and none of us have a problem with it. There's only one problem-- any time his computer is connected to the internet, it presents serious connectivity issues with all the other computers on the network EXCEPT the DMZ host.
It is to the point where every 1-10 minutes, it will time out the game that I am playing, or the messenger service I am using, etc etc. I can't just put myself on DMZ, because there are 3 more of us that all play games and such, blah blah.
I've tried using the router to limit his bandwith and put everyone else on high priority, but that didn't work. It only happens when he's torrenting, though it seems to happen even if his download speeds are low (10kbps both ways, 20 kbps).
I can't figure out how to limit his computer so that he doesn't use up all my megahertz! Is there a way to accomplish this so that we don't have to do something silly like set up times he's allowed to have his downloads running, etc etc?
tl/dr: Roommate taking up all the bandwith with torrenting, i think. HOW I STOP THIS?!
Thank you. Thank you all very much.
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I wouldn't go around trying to sabotage something unless it was a last resort. When I lived with 10 other people (!!!) in a house, we restricted heavy downloading to midnight-early daytime. We never had problems with this even with split Cable and DSL ports (7 and 4 respectively).
Doc: He says that his upload/download speeds are very low on some occasions where it's still giving me trouble. Would this still make a difference? Are uploads that much more cumbersome?
[edit] Not trying to sabotage anything, just trying to find a solution for everyone to do what they want at the same time.
Linksys, the type escapes me, for I am a-working.
Turns out, there was some problem with the modem. It was set for doing DHCP, not in bridge mode, etc... Basically the modem was trying to act like a router. Once we fixed that (an a NAT issue) we can torrent fine and it doesn't kill the connection. We can download at high speeds w/o sacraficing performance on games and such.
So uh, check that.
Satans..... hints.....
Bittorrents a shitty client (mind you I haven't used in it about 5 or 6 years so it may of changed since them. I would also get him to change his client.
Satans..... hints.....
I know it's not azerius, though -_-
water spirals the wrong way out the sink
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Bit torrent used to slow my machine down this way. Windows has a limit of simultaneous connections imposed on any the computer it's installed on. I am not a network whiz, but I think that when torrents makes connections to a lot of other users, there aren't any left for other things. There is a way to manually fix it (but I think that would just open up more connections for him to torrent even more). So maybe there is a connection limit on the router as well. Dunno, try looking into that