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?"

Comments

How about ask?

[Alioth]

How about just nicely explaining the problem to him, and requests he runs his P2P stuff overnight when no one is using the connection?

If that doesn't work, well, his port on the switch might mysteriously fail during waking hours.

Talk to your housemate

[Dolohov]

Seriously. An arms race is not going to solve your problem.

All major clients, but it still requires talking..

[Nerobro]

I love how people pimp their own client. But nearly every PTP client I've touched, has bandwidth limiting. Some of them, uTorrent included, allows you to schedule your bandwidth.

The real problem here isn't traffic shaping, but about traffic courtesy. Your housemate may not know how much trouble their causing. Talk to them. Get them to set their max speeds to 1/2 or 1/4 of the available bandwidth.

They may be surprised when their OWN web browsing gets better.

Yet this does all hinge on you talking to said housemate. Go talk. I've had the "talk" and been the person talking to the housemate. It usually works out well.