My DSL connection in my house got so bad recently (line kept dropping) that I splashed out on a fancy 20 meg fibre optic setup. The cable line and router are in my room and I connect directly to the router via LAN cable. I live in a shared house and everyone else in the house is paying towards my bill so we can all benefit from it as DSL is just not an option for anyone. I have no problems with this but one fucker in my house is clearly taking the piss and seems to have been doing some heavy consistent downloading since we got it fitted on friday. Is there anyway I can limit who receives what share of the connection over wifi? i.e 4 mb each or something? I have a D-Link 615 router. I've been through all of the firmware and googled the router and the problem but cannot find anything of use other than the QOS option which seems to only benefit PC gaming. Please help. I know I should just tell him to take it easy but I barely see the guy and it's an impossible thing to monitor. He's definitely sucking a large amount of bandwidth because the second I switched off the wifi broadcast my up and down speed shot through the roof, whatever he's doing is leaving me with about 2 meg at most.
There are routers out there that can do this, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. You can just ask him to only d/l overnight and not d/l heavily during the day OR tell him to limit his d/l max.
Most of the middle end of the Billion routers like the Bipac 7402 (about 100 quid) have QoS settings which do allow you to limit bandwidth (uplink and downlink) you can do it with IP addresses or computer names. It may be worth setting the router so everyone has a dedicated IP address rather then use the DHCP server settings.
