I live in a shared house and have setup the network so other people can use the internet. Problem being they've now started to use the internet to torrent a hell of a lot of crap. Internet has been so slow at times cannot even watch videos. I've installed DD-WRT on my router to try the QoS settings to see if I could throttle the bandwidth some, but I couldn't seem to get it to work. Really stumbling around in the dark here to try and get a solution for this, any help appreciated
Solution, tell your house mates to get the fuck off the internet's nuts. If your sharing internet, its common curtosy to not torrent as it uses 100% of the connection if you set it up to. You and your people need some ground rules. When i was in college living with 3 other people, we had a rule about asking if you could torrent, or not torrenting when were all home and wait till people are asleep or in class. Rules bro. Thats your solution. And if they are unwilling to do rules, then kick them in the taint and cut off the net. lawl.
I can't say I've messed with QoS settings except in theoretical situations, so I can't be much help there. I'm assuming your roomates are not the most tech savvy people. You could sneak into their rooms and set the download throttle on their torrents? They probably won't notice, especially if their not bandwith nuts like me that check and change the throttle constantly. QoS should be able to help in your situation, assuming your router's QoS lets you throttle based on MAC address (torrents switch ports and dynamic ip's on the internal network would make IP-specific throttling less useful). Some links I ran across while searching that may be handy: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=156707&sid=e556c20415043e191722982994f13763 http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=59978 forums.dlink.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=9918.0
