Re: Please help me - need advice on splitting bandwidth

Terry Arif wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 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.

Get a Netequalizer appliance and problem solved. They start at $1,800
and they work very effectively. That's what we run.

DTC <me@nothingtoseehere.zzx> hath wroth:

>Get a Netequalizer appliance and problem solved. They start at $1,800
>and they work very effectively. That's what we run.

Hmmm.... $1800 is about 5 years worth of $30/month DSL service. He
could buy the P2P addicts their own DSL service for 5 years, for the
price of the hardware. After 5 years, both the roommates and the
hardware will probably have depreciated to zero value.

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On Feb 19, 12:18 am, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
> DTC <m...@nothingtoseehere.zzx> hath wroth:
>
> >Get a Netequalizer appliance and problem solved. They start at $1,800
> >and they work very effectively. That's what we run.
>
> Hmmm.... $1800 is about 5 years worth of $30/month DSL service. He
> could buy the P2P addicts their own DSL service for 5 years, for the
> price of the hardware. After 5 years, both the roommates and the
> hardware will probably have depreciated to zero value.
>
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> Jeff Liebermann je...@cruzio.com
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Right the NetEqualizer starts to make sense when you manage 20 or so
users (sharing a link and paying for it) Below that level the
investment does not make sense

In article <ac0lr3ddgsbentjlrtugqnct6l16te00vt@4ax.com>,
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:

> Hmmm.... $1800 is about 5 years worth of $30/month DSL service. He
> could buy the P2P addicts their own DSL service for 5 years, for the
> price of the hardware. After 5 years, both the roommates and the
> hardware will probably have depreciated to zero value.

I have a Dlink DGL4300 that doesn't cost anywhere near that much, and
has some pretty useful QoS stuff included. I've said this before: this
is a very nice consumer router. Gigabit ethernet is nice for the wired
side and the Mac Pro.

http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=370&#DGL-4300

(Note that Dlink have invented some technical terms of their own that
will need deciphering. The online help-file is pretty good, though.)
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Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> hath wroth:
>I have a Dlink DGL4300 that doesn't cost anywhere near that much, and
>has some pretty useful QoS stuff included. I've said this before: this
>is a very nice consumer router. Gigabit ethernet is nice for the wired
>side and the Mac Pro.
>
>http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=370&#DGL-4300
>
>(Note that Dlink have invented some technical terms of their own that
>will need deciphering. The online help-file is pretty good, though.)

Well, methinks the "GameFuel" QoS (traffic shaper) in the DGL-4300 is
rather crude. It will also NOT do what the original poster wanted.
See setup at:
<http://support.dlink.com/emulators/dgl4300/Advanced_Traffic_Shaping.html>
The configuration is by port number range only, with no provisions for
control by IP or MAC address. No bandwidth limits by percentage of
available bandwidth, by kbits/sec, or by some priority scheme. Crude.


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