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Yeti
10-04-2007, 04:41 AM
Hi, is there a way to administrate/assign a certain maximum bandwidth in a wifi network? We use a usr8054router and I have the admin power:pirate2:. I just think that it's more important to assign bandwidth to the monkey and bike related things than to soccer and german gasmask porn, which is what my flatmate uses the internet for.
thanks!
binary visions
10-04-2007, 05:17 AM
Isn't your roommate paying for half the internet connection?
syadasti
10-04-2007, 06:12 AM
Some consumer routers offer traffic shaping but I'm not sure which ones might have rules by IP with bandwidth allocation settings.

edit - looks like the Dlink 600 series have shaping by priority which may be of some use to you:

http://support.dlink.com/Emulators/dir655/Advanced.html#Traffic_Shaping

http://www.support.dlink.com/emulators/dir625/Help_Advanced.html#Traffic_Shaping
Yeti
10-04-2007, 10:45 AM
Isn't your roommate paying for half the internet connection?

he is in theory, but he owes me 2 months and always forgets to give me the money.
binary visions
10-04-2007, 10:56 AM
This (http://www.usr.com/support/8054/8054-ug/three.html) shows that you don't have any bandwidth management options for your router. Sorry, you're out of luck unless you want to buy a new router. Only thing you could do would be to set up some options that would cut off his internet access (or parts of his internet access) entirely.
syadasti
10-04-2007, 11:02 AM
This (http://www.usr.com/support/8054/8054-ug/three.html) shows that you don't have any bandwidth management options for your router. Sorry, you're out of luck unless you want to buy a new router. Only thing you could do would be to set up some options that would cut off his internet access (or parts of his internet access) entirely.

He could run a junker PC with a networking centric linux distro and use the USR as an AP only.

Here (http://www.skullbox.net/clarkconnect.php) is a tutorial I found for one.
binary visions
10-04-2007, 11:06 AM
Yeah, that sounds like it'd be worth it... Subtle, too. :brow:

:D
SkaredShtles
10-04-2007, 12:58 PM
What the hell is soccer porn? :confused:
Westy
10-04-2007, 01:09 PM
What the hell is soccer porn? :confused:

You say that like gas mask porn is normal. I guess hippies probably need some kind of personal filtration to get near each other.
SkaredShtles
10-04-2007, 01:15 PM
You say that like gas mask porn is normal.
I knew that gas mask porn existed.... but soccer porn?!? :disgust1:

And hippies don't need gas masks - they use patchouli, don't they? :think: