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My sister is the biggest bitch in the world and is constantly downloading shitty music off TPB/iTunes.
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Is there any way possible to limit my sister's bandwidth? While not limiting my own? On the same network?
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Help me set up this QoS that you speak of
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Use google it's your friend. What type of router do you have? See if it has a Qos setting. If yes, then you can lookup what her Mac Address is and limit her connection.
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Pretty much any router has this built in. I often threatened to do the same thing to my sister when she would constantly stream YouTube videos all evening (one's she'd already watched like 15 times too mind you!) when I wanted to play TF2. Plus the internet kinda stunk to begin with, I get 20-30ms less ping to our servers (pre-Linux reinstall mind you) despite having moved 350 miles FURTHER away...

When you go into the router setting pages there are access restrictions and QOS and all that. I'd recommend giving your computer a fixed IP in your network (especially if on ethernet connection), so as someone else doesn't get that boost if you have to reboot the router due to power outage or whatever.
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I can't seem to find the QoS settings page.
Router is an ISP issued 2wire 2701HG-G
I can't use MAC filtering because the computer she's using is also the one everyone else in my family (except me) uses :[

EDIT: after digging around a bit, it doesn't seem to have QoS :[
Also, is rebooting the router just turning it off then on again? If so my mom INSISTS that it be turned off EVERY SINGLE NIGHT
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See if your ISP has a different model. Tell them it's packet loss and needs to be replaced. It's a known issue with that model.
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Yes, rebooting is just a power cycle....and usually doing that causes IP addresses to be reissued. When they aren't turned off, the router will typically give the same IP to the same computer. Rebooting clears this "memory". They definitely DO NOT need to be turned off daily, its got to be a pain having to turn it back on every day...

Giving your computer a static/permanent IP would get around that issue. This can be done even with wireless, it can just cause some trouble if you take said device to a different network, in which case you configure the alternate IP settings info...not too hard, but I haven't done that since XP, I bet it's been moved somewhere obscure in Vista/7....

And QoS doesn't mean the other computer gets no bandwidth, just less, it prioritizes based on the settings you set.
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Some routers let you prioritize a certain port, so you could prioritize 27015 so when you are playing tf2 other people won't slow you down, but your downloading torrents or whatever won't slow everyone else down.
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The 2701HG-D has QoS, but it is a bit weird.

For upstream, it has the port to QoS, so I can prioritize team fortress 2 easily upstream.

Downstream is different, it gives me the options of prioritizing either the "802.1p Priority Bit" or the "IP DSCP".

If anyone knows anything about this to help me out, that would be appreciated.
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madmattd wrote:Yes, rebooting is just a power cycle....and usually doing that causes IP addresses to be reissued. When they aren't turned off, the router will typically give the same IP to the same computer. Rebooting clears this "memory". They definitely DO NOT need to be turned off daily, its got to be a pain having to turn it back on every day...

Giving your computer a static/permanent IP would get around that issue. This can be done even with wireless, it can just cause some trouble if you take said device to a different network, in which case you configure the alternate IP settings info...not too hard, but I haven't done that since XP, I bet it's been moved somewhere obscure in Vista/7....

And QoS doesn't mean the other computer gets no bandwidth, just less, it prioritizes based on the settings you set.
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Anyway, getting a static IP seems easy enough (theres a page for my computer in my wireless network, I remember seeing IP options there) I'll take a few screens and post em up later.
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