Hi everyone.
So, I just recently moved into a new apartment with some friends and all is great. Well, except for the internet connection situation. The best we were able to get (without going with evil company 9000) was DSL with 15 down and 1 up. This is perfectly fine for most usage but my one roommate really like to download things. Like, a lot and as fast as possible.
Now, we have agreed to limit certain things to only go on max at certain hours but this still has issues with people being on vacation and wanting to stay up all night playing games, etc. Its just not the best solution.
What we are looking for is some way to put a computer between us and the router (or, if possible, to use the router itself) to act as a bandwidth allocation device. It would have that 1 dedicated task that for all outbound / inbound traffic, we can set rules for what gets priority. So if nothing is being used, 100% can go to torrents. But if I come home and fire up my browser for some slashdot surfing, my web browser traffic should take priority over the torrents so the torrent traffic would be restricted to whatever is left. And if I start playing a game, that would take the highest priority of all (lag sucks).
My question thus is, how can this be done without running special software on each computer connected to the network and that would give the ability to really set some good rules about what traffic is important and when?
Bandwidth Allocation Software / Server
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Re: Bandwidth Allocation Software / Server
First look into QoS and whether you can set it up as needed on your router. It can do exactly what you've described - it's just a matter of the configuration.
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Re: Bandwidth Allocation Software / Server
Thanks, we will take a look at that and hopefully it will rock our socks off.
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Re: Bandwidth Allocation Software / Server
I would recommend taking a look at pf sense. It's a linux (well, BSD I think) distro that servs as a firewall, so you can set it up as nat, and do QOS with it. Take a look as it might do what you need. I have very minimal experience with it, but have been meaning to check it out myself for this same purpose.