Thanks to everyone for the replies and advice.
It was the article about the gaming router that caused me to post this question (there wasn't a huge discussion on other options besides that yet).
Last night I stumbled across m0n0wall, it seems pretty full featured and clean to setup. I am a big FreeBSD and PHP fan, so I really appreciate the work that has went into it.
I am going to be converting a Toshiba Magnia SG10 into the m0n0wall box, and use the bandwidth shaping tool in it (which uses dummynet).
As far as those suggesting limits on the bittorrent traffic client side, we already do that. The problem is that we have some friends moving in upstairs from us, and we are giving them network access. Its much harder for me to run up there and throttle them if their working hard to increase their share ratios. Its hard enough with 3-4 computers sharing the connection, but 4-6 is going to be really difficult.
Again, thanks a lot everyone.
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Thanks to everyone for the replies and advice. It was the article about the gaming router that caused me to post this question (there wasn't a huge discussion on other options besides that yet). Last night I stumbled across m0n0wall, it seems pretty full featured and clean to setup. I am a big FreeBSD and PHP fan, so I really appreciate the work that has went into it. I am going to be converting a Toshiba Magnia SG10 into the m0n0wall box, and use the bandwidth shaping tool in it (which uses dummynet). As far as those suggesting limits on the bittorrent traffic client side, we already do that. The problem is that we have some friends moving in upstairs from us, and we are giving them network access. Its much harder for me to run up there and throttle them if their working hard to increase their share ratios. Its hard enough with 3-4 computers sharing the connection, but 4-6 is going to be really difficult. Again, thanks a lot everyone.