Network bandwidth limiting?

[Foo]

Not without expensive QoS hardware (Cisco switches and shit) or an intermediary PC filtering all of your networks access to the net.

Whys?

[Foo]

Pay for a connection for yourself

Oh if they're using bittorrent, get them to use the speedscheduler plugin and set the times so it downloads only from like midnight to midday.

That's restored peace to our household lately

[Cool Blue]

Unplug their cable when you need the bandwidth clear. The downloads will automatically resume when reconnected.

[4g3nt_Smith]

My ~$50 Linksys had QoS shit in it, where I can set speed and transfer limits, block ips and ports, etc.

[AmIdYfReAk]

My ~$50 Linksys had QoS shit in it, where I can set speed and transfer limits, block ips and ports, etc.

i was gonna say that linksys's are offered with it..

[Foo]

My ~$50 Linksys had QoS shit in it, where I can set speed and transfer limits, block ips and ports, etc.

did not know that

[Tormentius]

did not know that

Yeah, it works fairly well too.

[DiscoDave]

You can get external software to limit download speeds overall on a computer. Only problem is you have to install it on each machine and trust the users not to uncap it =\.

But yeah, other than that you'll have to get a bitching router like Foo pointed out. I do remember, however, reading an article on using a spare machine as a server for the network which can limit bandiwdth to users, it was running a Linux distro of some kind. I may be wrong but i'll try and dig it up.

[^misantropia^]

devil-linux is a dedicated firewall/router distro with support for QoS packet scheduling. Small and even runs on a 386.

[AmIdYfReAk]

i dont think memph wants a computer based silution...

are they all running Windwos XP memph?