- Nov 2, 2013
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Hey everyone,
Here's the deal: my brother has been using a lot of bandwidth lately, torrenting almost every single day, sometimes over 15GB a day, I barely go over 20GB a month and that is with the occasional torrent/large download/streaming spree. I want to be able to limit his download speed and/or prioritize my internet usage over his (for some reason, his PC seems to get top priority for any and all usage - e.g. I play League of Legends, which relies on having a low ping, if he is torrenting/downloading any files, I simply cannot play as I get +300 ping which is excruciating to play with). I am thinking he has set up some sort of QoS or program that allows this to happen.
However, I have combed through our router's setting and there is nothing I can find which he has set up so it is quite possible that our ISP/router prioritizes downloads over multimedia for whatever reason but in saying that, he can watch YouTube videos easily and with no buffering @ 480p and I can't watch any videos at any resolution without 10s of buffering for every 5s of footage.
Router I am using: DLink DSL-2730B w/ standard cable modem/splitter
I would like to maybe set up a program like netlimiter without his knowledge in order to achieve this and/or set up QoS (I have literally no idea how it works, so a step-bystep guide would be helpful - I'll provide screenshots if need be).
Finally, this is NOT a social issue, there is no reasoning with my selfish brother and his lies about whatever he is doing in order to achieve optimal usage on his end (with a worse PC) sickens me to my core.
Thanks to anyone who can help me!
Here's the deal: my brother has been using a lot of bandwidth lately, torrenting almost every single day, sometimes over 15GB a day, I barely go over 20GB a month and that is with the occasional torrent/large download/streaming spree. I want to be able to limit his download speed and/or prioritize my internet usage over his (for some reason, his PC seems to get top priority for any and all usage - e.g. I play League of Legends, which relies on having a low ping, if he is torrenting/downloading any files, I simply cannot play as I get +300 ping which is excruciating to play with). I am thinking he has set up some sort of QoS or program that allows this to happen.
However, I have combed through our router's setting and there is nothing I can find which he has set up so it is quite possible that our ISP/router prioritizes downloads over multimedia for whatever reason but in saying that, he can watch YouTube videos easily and with no buffering @ 480p and I can't watch any videos at any resolution without 10s of buffering for every 5s of footage.
Router I am using: DLink DSL-2730B w/ standard cable modem/splitter
I would like to maybe set up a program like netlimiter without his knowledge in order to achieve this and/or set up QoS (I have literally no idea how it works, so a step-bystep guide would be helpful - I'll provide screenshots if need be).
Finally, this is NOT a social issue, there is no reasoning with my selfish brother and his lies about whatever he is doing in order to achieve optimal usage on his end (with a worse PC) sickens me to my core.
Thanks to anyone who can help me!
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