how to prioritize line sharing?

Jiggy

Jiggy

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hi all

at my place im renting we all share the adsl line, we all have our own isp and pppoe connection, which is all good.

i happily playing my games till one of my house mates decides to check there Facebook, and i start lagging.....

is there anyway of me dedicating myself a huge chunk ( 99% :whistle:) and they get enough for browsing?

i have found software that can do it, but that requires 1 connection and be installed on every computer... which is not possible.
 
Most routers have a qos settings where you can allocate bandwidth per IP, what router are you using and do you have access to it?
 
Jiggy said:
is there anyway of me dedicating myself a huge chunk ( 99% :whistle:) and they get enough for browsing?
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Will you be covering "a huge chunk" of the cost too? Ethics 101 and all that.

Jiggy said:
i happily playing my games till one of my house mates decides to check there Facebook, and i start lagging.....
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FB is partially hosted locally, which means you're pretty much going to lag regardless of what you do. QoS doesn't really help all that much in those circumstances.

zamedic said:
Does QOS work when the connections are made via PPPOE?
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No. At least not with the Netgear I've got here.
 
QoS only works if the PPP is done on the router. PPPOE tunnels through the router so no, it won't.
 
QoS alone will not help.

You'll need to get a router where you can limit the non-gaming traffic to say 2Mbps (out of the 4Mbps). You can do this with MikroTik routers, but it ain't easy!

There are dedicated gaming routers out there, and I have seen reviews that showed pretty good success rates with some of them - like the D-Link one for instance.

Unfortunately when you're not dialing the PPPoE connection from the router that performs the shaping/QoS, but from the PC's/routers behind it, then you won't be able to limit/shape the traffic.
With the MikroTik router you can dial multiple PPPoE connections simultaneously and then route different people's traffic via different accounts, but this ain't gonna be easy either. In a setup like this, you can easily make a mistake and route the person's traffic via the wrong account too. If each person is dialing their own PPPoE connection from their PC, then you will never be able to accidentally use another person's ISP account.
 
well i wanted a 4/10mrg line and offered to pay the difference, and my land lord being the fruitfly said he thinks the 1 mb is just fine for him...

the line is fine when nobody uses it, oh well im not gonna go through all that just to get tad less lag....

thanks for the info guys
 
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