Help on priorities please

[Albereth]

Hi, a friend has an ADSL link and he and his wife share it. He plays BF2 and she downloads stuff. Last night he was pinging in the 600s. The stuff she is downloading isn't urgent must have right now.

Can Windows XP Professional be set up to give one of the machines higher priority than the other? I remember reading some post about a permissions setting that showed that XP allocated 20% of available bandwidth by default.

Please help.

Thanks

 

[Darth Garth]

You really need a "gaming" router that implements QOS (Quality of Service) of TCP/IP which most consumer grade routers don't bother with to ensure that your time sensitive VOIP and your game packets has a higher priority than normal web traffic and email.

Dlink sells them

http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=371&#DGL-4100

There is some software available on Windows which can do the same trick but they are mostly painfull to configure and sometimes interfere with normal operation.

It would be easier just to kick the wife off .

 

[Albereth]

Tibby, thanks. You are probably right on your last point but I think my friend likes being married and being able to see out both eyes.

 

[Mr Anderson]

I agree....I have the same situation with my Dad when he goes online and I'm busy with BF2. I just ask him to please make it quick and get off lol. The other alternative for you is to upgrade to 384ADSL which is actually worth-while since it's only a couple of bucks more.

 

[ant1b0dy]

try netlimiter
http://www.netlimiter.com/

 

[Darth Garth]

try netlimiter
http://www.netlimiter.com/

The problem is that it is not a very flexible solution ... you hardcap the limit but then when you are not gaming or Skyping the wife complains that her funny video's from YouTube stutters.

You really want a dynamic priority setting based on your traffic which only a decent QOS router can do ... the higher end Billion 72XX does it afaik.

I just upgraded to 1024 and said half is hers and the kids and wangled the extra costs from paying for 512K out of the household budget .

 

[ziglet]

Netlimter can be set to define rules for the limit when certain programs / games are open. So when your friend is playing games, netlimiter will set the "hardcap limit" of his wifes browsing but when not gaming the limit will be turned off. Netlimiter is my bible on pc especially seeing as it can connect to any pc in the house and remotely set the limits

 

[rsachoc]

I with tibby.dude on this one, get a router, less hassles.

Or alternatively, use a IpCOP box (or some other linux solution), that does QOS

 

[Darth Garth]

Netlimter can be set to define rules for the limit when certain programs / games are open.

Too much administration for my liking.

 

[ToAsTeD]

I use netlimiter, does do the job, altho as tibby says, its a lil too much admin for ma liking

 

[savage]

Why not just use a download manager and queue the downloads to download during the wee wee hours of the morning when you both should be in bed in any case?