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Prioritized Internet Sharing for Home Users?

Posted by Cliff on from the bandwidth-preservation dept.

precursor asks: "Like many of you, I share a house with a couple of other geeks. This is normally a hoot - until it comes time for bandwidth sharing on a single cable modem (it's hard to play games with a bunch of torrent junkies). What solutions have other Slashdot readers implemented for sharing or limiting certain types of bandwidth on a home network? We are especially interested in solutions that we could implement on an aging PC or on hardware that can be purchased on a budget."

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  1. Dupe? by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Didn't we just see the solution to this problem here two days ago?

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  2. High-tech solution by LePrince · · Score: 5, Insightful
    TALK.

    Yeah, I know, it's weird, but it can be achieved.

    At home we are 3 intensive users sharing a 6.5mbps (~800k/sec) download and 880kbps (~120k/sec) upload.

    What we do ? Well we RESPECT each other. Meaning ? We all 3 have Azureus for Bittorrent downloads, and the max upload speed we each set is 30k/sec. That means that even if all 3 of us upload at 30k/sec, there's still a 20-30k/sec available for gaming, browsing, etc. As for the download speed, we really rarely cap out the 800 barrier, so it's not much of a problem. But if it is for you, take the whole bandwidth, substract 10% of it, then split evenly between all of you by setting a maximum download speed in Azureus (I'm sure other BT clients can do this as well, but I love Azureus). TADAM !

    Total time of implementation : 5 minutes. Total cost : 0$.