Which one of these services are for video streaming?

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derekc5475

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My neighbor hogs up the internet all the time by streaming videos literally 24/7.
I want to limit the amount of internet he gets with my modem.
The problem is, I don't know which one of the services on the list is for video streaming.

 
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It varies by the type of service. netflix is likely different than say youtube. Most this stuff looks like normal web traffic though. Still the only one you can do anything about would be something like twitch where they were streaming data to the internet.

You are going to have to find the application they are using first and then look up the ports it uses. It is much easier to just match their mac address of their PC and limit all their traffic.

Still this tends to be a complete waste of time. Say you set all their stuff to "low" or whatever silly option the OoS uses. Now lets say they are watching a HD video and you are playing some game. The path to your house is overloaded and the ISP drops say 10% of both your game...
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bill001g

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You allow your neighbor to use you internet connecting and he is hogging it. Simple change the password and tell him to get his own connection. If he is transmitting video you might be able to do something with QoS and you could match his mac address. You really can only affect traffic you send..upload. Download traffic is in control of the ISP so you are extremely restricted what you can do.
 
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bill001g

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It varies by the type of service. netflix is likely different than say youtube. Most this stuff looks like normal web traffic though. Still the only one you can do anything about would be something like twitch where they were streaming data to the internet.

You are going to have to find the application they are using first and then look up the ports it uses. It is much easier to just match their mac address of their PC and limit all their traffic.

Still this tends to be a complete waste of time. Say you set all their stuff to "low" or whatever silly option the OoS uses. Now lets say they are watching a HD video and you are playing some game. The path to your house is overloaded and the ISP drops say 10% of both your game traffic and the HD video. What is your router going to do to make the ISP not drop your traffic and drop more of the video traffic. How can it recreate the data the ISP has dropped.

With QoS you can only control what you send and it is seldom the upload part of a internet connection that is constrained.....A twitch streamer or a bit torrent guy are some of the very few that kill the upload bandwidth.
 
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