I have just moved into a house with 6 of my friends to study at uni. We pay for a 20Mbps internet connection from virgin and when only one person is onine it's lightning quick. The problem occurs when more than one person connects. We are all into our P2P networking and therefore demand a high bandwidth, the problem is the bandwidth is not being shared evenly between each computer. One computer will be downloading at a very high speed whereas all the others will be slow. This also affects just general web browsing if someone is on a P2P network.
I recently got hold of NetLimiter Pro and believed this would sort out all our problems. Installed it on every machine in our house and gave each person 3Mbps worth of bandwidth each (2.5 down/0.5 Up) I beieved this would therefore mean most of the time that everyone would get a fair share of the bandwidth, only when everyone is using all 3Mbps would there be a problem as it would need a 21Mbps line. Firstly NetLimiter does not seem to be that strict with the limiting as i downloaded something at more than triple the rate my computer was limited to. Also it seems that when quite a few people are connected it slows the internet right down to a standstill almost. Another problem is that one person has a Playstation 3 and would like to use it online but i've so far banned him from doing so as i cannot limit his bandwidth and he therefore takes it all when he plays on it.
Basically i'm looking for a solution to fix all my problems. I am currently in my second year studying computer systems engineering (MEng) and therefore know a little bit about computers but, due to this, i am looked upon as the person that needs to "fix the internet" everytime something goes wrong. I have breifly had a look at purchasing a new router with QoS built in but the only ones i've come across are where you can set priority for certain mac addresses rather than a bandwidth limit. I also heard about using a Linux machine as a router inwhich i would create a program to share the bandwidth equally between the connected computers. Maybe i'm going about this all the wrong way but please, if anyone has any idea, could you let me know.
I recently got hold of NetLimiter Pro and believed this would sort out all our problems. Installed it on every machine in our house and gave each person 3Mbps worth of bandwidth each (2.5 down/0.5 Up) I beieved this would therefore mean most of the time that everyone would get a fair share of the bandwidth, only when everyone is using all 3Mbps would there be a problem as it would need a 21Mbps line. Firstly NetLimiter does not seem to be that strict with the limiting as i downloaded something at more than triple the rate my computer was limited to. Also it seems that when quite a few people are connected it slows the internet right down to a standstill almost. Another problem is that one person has a Playstation 3 and would like to use it online but i've so far banned him from doing so as i cannot limit his bandwidth and he therefore takes it all when he plays on it.
Basically i'm looking for a solution to fix all my problems. I am currently in my second year studying computer systems engineering (MEng) and therefore know a little bit about computers but, due to this, i am looked upon as the person that needs to "fix the internet" everytime something goes wrong. I have breifly had a look at purchasing a new router with QoS built in but the only ones i've come across are where you can set priority for certain mac addresses rather than a bandwidth limit. I also heard about using a Linux machine as a router inwhich i would create a program to share the bandwidth equally between the connected computers. Maybe i'm going about this all the wrong way but please, if anyone has any idea, could you let me know.