Re: Please help me - need advice on splitting bandwidth

dOn Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:15:38 -0500, Terry Arif
<Terry.Arif.34zog5@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> wrote in
<Terry.Arif.34zog5@no-mx.wirelessforums.org>:

>I really need some help. I live in house with two other guys in the UK.
>We have a linksys wireless router and share a broadband connection.
>
>Basically the guy downstairs is constantly downloading through torrent
>engines and go knows what, he basically takes all the bandwith, and I
>can just about surf the web most of the time. He actually pretended the
>router was broken the other week so he could use a cable connection,
>when we tested the router it worked, but it is still hard to get any of
>the bandwidth at the moment.
>
>I know what I need to do, set the router up so it shares the bandwidth
>equally between the three computers, I just do not know how.
>
>The router I have is a linksys BEFW11S4.
>
>I have researched a little bit and found that I need to set up QoS
>(Quality of Service), however I think my router is quite old as it does
>not seem to have this feature.
>
>I really am at my wits end because I rely on the internet to speak to
>my family back home, as I have emigrated. I also enjoy playing games
>online, but this is impossible. If I ever manage to get a good
>connection he will unplug the router and plug it back in so he gets all
>the bandwidth. When asked he just says the router does not work
>properly, but when his computer is turned off (rarely) it works ok.
>
>I look forward to hearing some advice. Thank you.

Your BEFW11S4 is too old to solve your problem. Get one of the
supported devices and use DD-WRT firmware
<http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices>

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John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> hath wroth:

>Your BEFW11S4 is too old to solve your problem. Get one of the
>supported devices and use DD-WRT firmware
><http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices>

Agreed. DD-WRT v24 RC6.2 works. I'm suprised that your BEFW11S4
doesn't crash and hang from all the P2P traffic.

Also see:
Optimization for Bittorrent to prevent crashes.
<http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Bittorrent>

Quality of Service:
<http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Qos>
<http://solosoft.org:81/projects/qos/>
under prioritization by application or MAC address.

You can also just block P2P protocols. Under "Access Restrictions"
there are a list of common P2P protocols. See:
<http://www.informatione.gmxhome.de/DDWRT/Standard/V24BetaVPN/Filters.html>
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:

<snip>

> I'm suprised that your BEFW11S4
> doesn't crash and hang from all the P2P traffic.

<snip>

Indeed, I wonder which rev. it is. In a previous post I
mentioned my troubles with that device which I have repackaged
for outdoor use. When it was subjected to many days of
below zero F temperatures, the frequent crashes vanished.
I can't say how long that will last, but it suggests some
mechanical problem with the board rather than the design.

Michael

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:13:43 -0600, msg <msg@_cybertheque.org_> wrote:

>Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> I'm suprised that your BEFW11S4
>> doesn't crash and hang from all the P2P traffic.
>
><snip>
>
>Indeed, I wonder which rev. it is.

Most v4 mutations seem to suck. v2 seems to work. No clue on the
others.

>In a previous post I
>mentioned my troubles with that device which I have repackaged
>for outdoor use. When it was subjected to many days of
>below zero F temperatures, the frequent crashes vanished.

The specs on the BEFW11S4 are 0C to 40C.

>I can't say how long that will last, but it suggests some
>mechanical problem with the board rather than the design.

Nope. I now have 4 of the v4 losers and they all hang or crash.
However, I setup one of them with some new 1.52.06 firmware for v4
that was "leaked" out of Linksys. (1.52.02 is the latest on the
Linksys web pile). See:
<http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/crud/BEFW11S4v4/>
The web based update mechanism does not work due to bad checksums on
some lines. However, the TFTP upload method works just fine.

I haven't done much testing with this version. I also updated a
customers. No complaints yet, but that might be because they owe me
money.

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