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Limiting Bandwidth Hogs on Public Wireless Nets?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-to-lay-out-the-speed-humps dept.

arglesnaf asks: "I'm a consultant and spend a lot of time on public wireless networks at client sites (mostly hospitals / universities), coffee shops, and hotels. Quite often, the problem is that some person is running BitTorrent and eating 100% of the bandwidth. The result is that I can't get email during the day or play World of Warcraft in the hotel. I have considered sniffing and spoofing TCP resets to free up some bandwidth but need an automated way to handle new BitTorrent connections. Does anybody have any ideas on how to automate the sniff and reset strategy, or other ways to carve out a little bandwidth from hogs on public wireless?"

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  1. slashdot still sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

  2. Re:Numerous ways to effectively deal with this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    A) He never said what sort of consultant he was, merely that it requires him to often often be on client sites. His being a consultant is actually irrelevant to the entire question and was given merely as background to explain why he was often away from his personal or business connection.

    B) He is having a problem with overcrowded public hotspots (because he is often on the road and at client sites). Those would be hotspots he doesn't have control over. Your advice is useless

    You fail at reading. You fail at commenting. You fail at flaming.