router problem

[John Bowden]

On Friday 18 January 2008 08:28:07 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.
>
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What model make is the router? Check the fire wall settings on the router to 
see if you can limit file sharing. Ask your friend to slow down his file 
sharing program, (which is?), especially the "up load limit". Or replace the 
router with a PC set up as a firewall / router and set some firewall rules 
limiting the band width on the ports the file sharing program uses. The Fire 
wall / router PC can be an old second hand base unit with 2 NICs, plus 
keyboard, (no monitor). Have a look at -

www.smoothwall.org 

There are other similar set ups to Smoothwall just cant think of any at 
moment, but I'm sure others will chip in.
Or if your machine is on 24/7 put a second NIC in, set it up as a gateway and 
plug your mates PC into it and limit his band width with your machines 
settings.

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