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05-01-2007, 07:50 AM
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bandwidth throttle?
I use my main computer to play games but whenever any of the other computers in my house start a download or just browse some image intensive webpage it takes all the bandwidth and kills my game. Is there a (free/cheap) program I can install client side that'll prevent this from happening? I've searched google but I've only found programs that install on a gateway computer but Im not running a gateway comp, just going into a router.
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05-01-2007, 08:01 AM
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Devils Cabana Boy
Location: Central Coast CA
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if you have a free old computer with 2 nic's you can, i use m0n0wall to shape all the traffic on my network. mine runs on a Pentium 2, 333mhz, with 64 megs of ram, although the log files say I've never peaked 32.
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05-01-2007, 11:02 AM
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Loves my girl in thongs
Location: North of Mexico, South of Canada
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If you have a WRT54G and some spare time, I belive that you can throttle by MAC address in open-wrt or dd-wrt
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05-01-2007, 03:11 PM
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Poo-tee-weet?
Location: The Woodlands, TX
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yah what arch said,
with a wrt54g router and dd-wrt its pretty easy to setup network priority by type of traffic or by the computer making the traffic. wrt54gs look like they are going for about $50 on the internet... if you look at the dd-wrt website you can find which other routers support the firmware.
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05-02-2007, 08:41 PM
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Professional Loafer
Location: texas
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I've got a Cisco 871w ISR, it will do spectacular traffic shaping. You may not want to spend that much for a router though.
871w product page below: http://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/r...d8028a976.html
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I'll check out DD-WRT and see if I can get something working
