Bandwidth Limiting

[StVald]

Howdy,

I have 2 pcs connected to the internet via a D-link router. Normally, I get great ping on near by servers when playing trem. But when my brother turns on msn, or an internet browser on his win 98 pc, my ping goes crazy. Why do those progs have to be such bandwidth hogs   . Is there anyway I can limit his bandwidth? I have searched all over for a freeware bandwidth manager that works on win 98, to no avail. Maybe I can somehow prioritize trem to take the most bandwidth possible?

[PIE]

If you can't do it through the router I don't really see any solution except taking a knife to his cable >: )...

[fourchannel]

You could set up a linux box as a router. Then you can control bandwidth. However you'll need a comp, 3 ethernet cards, and a lot of howto's and forum searching to setup dhcp3 and whatnot. It can work really well if setup correctly, but it will be a trial to get it to that point.

This might be of some help.

[rasz_pl]

cfosspeed and make your computer share connection

[Thorn]

cfosspeed and make your computer share connection

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOD DAMM NOT CFOSSSSSSS

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GRRRRR SO MANY TIMES ITS TRASHED MY COMP ARGHUAOEGEAI{BAEGABHOIUGBAEGBAEPOIGAEBOGABOGAP

[StVald]

You could set up a linux box as a router.

I was hoping to avoid this. But thanks. This narrows down my options to cutting the cable  

[rasz_pl]

You could set up a linux box as a router.

I was hoping to avoid this. But thanks. This narrows down my options to cutting the cable  

no, seriously, buy secont NIC and enable interner sharing on your computer (u didnt say anything so im assumin you are an M$ XP lameass:P), then go to cfosspeed.com and DL 30 day trial.

[StVald]

Heh, I tired linux once. I even had my good friend, a linux master, come in to help me set it up. I forget what distro, as you say, it was. But it was supposed to be newbie friendly... 24h later we were still getting a weired error saying the HD was partitioned wrong. When we checked online we saw this particular error was unanswered by the devs for months. After that experience, my desire to set up another linux comp has been somewhat sour. Maybe you can suggest a form of linux that is newbie friendly AND works?

And the option you suggested, having my pc as gateway by using internet sharing... I read somewhere that can slow down the pc that connects to the internet. That's why I opted for a router (=more $).... but is that claim true?

[rasz_pl]

And the option you suggested, having my pc as gateway by using internet sharing... I read somewhere that can slow down the pc that connects to the internet. That's why I opted for a router (=more $).... but is that claim true?

no

[Belier13]

And the option you suggested, having my pc as gateway by using internet sharing... I read somewhere that can slow down the pc that connects to the internet. That's why I opted for a router (=more $).... but is that claim true?

no

Good job on writing something that makes sence.

[fourchannel]

Maybe you can suggest a form of linux that is newbie friendly AND works?

You might give Ubuntu linux a shot. I would say that you should not use the desktop version but the server install instead, seeing as how you won't need to waste any computing power on X. Ubuntu Server Information

Most of the howto's written on the Ubuntu Forums are for the desktop, however the stuff that you need to setup should work regardless if you have a desktop or server setup.

The 6.06 release was considered a development release for a long time, and has just recently been released as a stable distro. I set up my webserver on the 5.10 server release, and have had fantastic and stable results with it. So if you don't need the lateset and greatest features, I would go for the 5.10 release.

Ubuntu has been, in my personal experience, the most user friendly distro out there. Gentoo may be faster, but you won't need insane performance for simply routing packets.

[Shaydee]

You could set up a linux box as a router.

Yup.
On the other hand, D-Link routers already *are* running linux, iirc. Please correct me if i am wrong, because i've only had a D-Link router for a short time (it wasnt running very well), but as far as i remember it is a tiny linux box itself. You might be able to "hack" it, and set up your own firewall rules so that your brother's bandwidth gets limited. But this would require a lot of work, as well as the risk of fucking up your router.

[rasz_pl]

nope, most of bigger linksyses, belkins, asuses, but almost all dlinks are VxWorks driven

[PIE]

If this was running Cisco IOS *shudder* i could solve it instantly , but yeah Ubuntu is pretty solid and the community is really good at helping solve problems.. but the thing about linux is there are so many distros.. there might be a specialized router distro you might consider if you plan on just using it as a router.

The thing about the 2 nic ICS is that the connection comes into the computer on one wire and the other computer comes in on the other (duh).
What happens is you have the full wire traffic from both computers trying to fit into one .. its a 2 computers on 1 wire problem.. but frankly unless your internet is >100mb then as far as internet goes you shouldn't feel anything, the cable should be able to handle more than 2 times your internet, but if you have a crappy computer/nic, your computer will be processing all of this crap for sending out... might want to keep that in mind.