router problem

[David Vincent]

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NoOp wrote:
> On 01/18/2008 12:28 AM, Chris Lemire wrote:
>> I'm sharing the internet with someone else through a router.
>> Everything is fine except once in a while, I'd like to play games
>> such as Quake 4 in Linux or Call of Duty 4. My ping is so horrible,
>> it irritates me and others to play on servers. I have full access to
>> the router, what I'd like to do is give gaming priority over all the
>> torrent downloads going on by the other computer to cause lag and
>> high ping with gaming servers. Is there any other solution besides
>> unplugging his internet temporarily from the other computer? I've
>> already tried that and usually get sleepy and forget to plug it back
>> in. Thanks for your time.
> 
> Sure, buy a router that provides QoS (Quality of Service) where you can
> set port/application priorities.

http://www.smoothwall.org or http://www.endian.com/en/community/

Smoothwall is easier to setup.  Both will do traffic shaping.  You'll
need a spare PC (pentium or above), two network cards, a very small hard
drive (under 10gb) and at least 128mb RAM.  They recommend at least a
P2-400 and 256mb RAM for Endian.  Endian is based on Smoothwall which is
based on IPCop iirc.

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