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P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use?
An anonymous reader writes "My housemate uses an aggressive P2P client, that when in use makes the Internet unusable for everyone else connected to the network. After hearing about various ISPs shaping traffic to reduce P2P traffic, I was wondering if there was a solution for managing P2P traffic on a home network. I have a Linksys WRT54G available for hacking. Can Slashdot recommend a way to reduce the impact of P2P on my network and make it usable again?"
In the days of Napster, a nephew of mine spent a year living with me while going to college nearby.
His use of Napster would make the cable modem connection unusable. In response, I'd go to the home firewall device (had one of the early Linksys models) and block the traffic.
He thought the cable company was doing it.
Beat the shit out of the fucker.
Switch to Comcast!
Simple - take a BIG HAMMER to his computer.
Most of the stuff on
tell him that his .torrent-ing is adversely affecting your social life on WoW. He'll either understand, or not.
If not, just use some DPS and hide behind the couch....
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Lock down the router with a password and then put epoxy or superglue over the router reset button. If it's already protected reset it, put your own password there and then do all that.
;)
Even better hide the router inline where the cable comes into the house, they'll never know
FYI DD-WRT or Tomato are two good router firmware replacements.
Instead of cheaping out spend $30 a month for your own cable or DSL connection. Or, as many have suggested, just talk to the guy.
Barring that just connect the 220v dryer line to the wall socket in his room and hope that he got his power bar for $5.99 at WalMart.
Or even better please all of your room-mates and just move.
Three Squirrels
Tell him if he doesn't stop using P2P while everyone else is awake and using the net then you're going to cave his skull in with his monitor.
You'll either make him stop or make him press charges. Either way it probably won't be an issue for you anymore.
I'm sure the reaction of physical violence isn't one most Slashdot readers would take. All that heavy breathing would just tire us out too quickly.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. But light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
I was thinking electromagnet for some traffic shaping...
Heeeeeere data data data.....
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He's from the RIAA, and he's part of a research to find ways to fix the problem at the root.
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I took the BIG Hammer to the roommate, nothing wrong with the computer.