Regulating bandwidth on home network (how?)

[TheMagicM]

I have a router with a few pc's on the net..and my brother hogs up bandwidth sometimes..how can I regulate how much bandwidth he's using?

[Argo]

Unplug his computers network cable at the router.  :-D

How's your home network setup? What is your router?

You may need to use a computer to act as the network router. In which case you can use something like ClarkConnect which has a bandwidth manager module.

[GreggBz]

Hmm..
Without extra information, Limit his ethernet interface to half duplex, lol. should be a setting in windows for that. or ethertool for linux.
You could get some fancy SNMP provisioning software.

[Floid]

Find a 486 and two network cards...

[T_Bone]

I was thinking of doing something like this.

I want to give my computer "dibs" on all bandwidth, and only let the rest of the network use the bandwidth I'm not using.

I was also thinking about setting up some kind of router between my cable connection and a neighbors cable connection, that would share bandwidth between us, so that I could use his free bandwidth when he's not using it, and vice-versa.

haven't really seen an easy way to do this. (read "easy" as "I don't feel like doing it") :lol:

[Floid]

T_Bone wrote:
I was thinking of doing something like this.

I want to give my computer "dibs" on all bandwidth, and only let the rest of the network use the bandwidth I'm not using.

That's what all the various queueing solutions are for.  I gather there's something for Linux, too, and I'm sure someone's coughed up a Windows variant, but... I try not to think about that, it makes my head hurt.

I was also thinking about setting up some kind of router between my cable connection and a neighbors cable connection, that would share bandwidth between us, so that I could use his free bandwidth when he's not using it, and vice-versa.

This is more of a stupendous pain in the ___, because you either need your own endpoint for both links to point to (allowing you to do some multilink business with PPP tunneling, which may suffer mightily for the asymmetry, I'm not sure), or some downright insane routing, which probably doesn't offer the granularity you're after... though I guess that might not be *too* bad, if you both plonk behind NAT and are able to make everything within the router aware to an appropriate level.

[GadgetMaster]

Try this link for some ideas. Scroll down for the answers.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Q_20937798.html

[Piru]

I use a Debian GNU/Linux box with iptables and tc.