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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. Steps for getting bandwidth by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step 1: Find wireless network with SSID "linksys" or "netgear"
    Step 2: Point browser at gateway
    Step 3: Log in with default password
    Step 4: Change channel, change SSID, enable WPA-PSK, change password.
    Step 5: ???
    Step 6: Profit!

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  2. I suggest by Acy+James+Stapp · · Score: 4, Funny

    You go from room to room asking if anyone is running bittorrent. When you find someone who is, shoot them and close bittorrent. I think any judge would consider this reasonable, after all it's *your* bandwidth they're stealing, and clearly thoes denied their WoW fix can't be expected to behave entirely rationally.

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