Managing my broadband connection at home, Proxy?

[Lianesch]

Hi,

I'm using a fairly good internet connection from Axxess on a 4mb line. I'm somewhat of a hardcore gamer and not to up to date on networking as I'm in my first year at college studying IT. I'm using Windows 7 32bit on a quad core PC.

The problem I have is my brother downloads crap loads of rubbish and is on the net 24/7, while my mum remotely connects to work at night sometimes which could be bandwidth consuming. This causes me to DC and lag in wow and its really annoying while I'm in a 25 man raid.

Is there a way I can restrict the amount of bandwidth there using? ea limit them to 1mb while I'm consuming the rest at that time. And prio games for me and limit the p2p downloads for my brother?

I heard of proxy software but tbh I have no clue how to use that stuff. Was told i should use Squid but wtf is going on there. Was hoping for something with a GUI ea click on this user and limit his bandwidth to ... amount, click on this user and limit his p2p downloads. I can do the rest like setting up there default gateway. Also I have an old PC I want to use as the dedicated server. It will probably be running Windows XP or I could setup Ubuntu on it but I'm not a command line kinda guy and know that this kind of stuff on a Linux system requires a pretty advance user with previous Linux experience. If I knew how to I would probably prefer Linux to Windows but I don't.

P.S. I'm paying for the bandwidth and my parents are paying for the adsl line so cant tell my brother to FO while I'm playing wow.

Please help!

 

[bleh69]

your gonna get real far in IT if you have clearly no real interest in it besides being a click junkie.

 

[Rosaudio]

Best solution: Stop playing WoW

 

[Lianesch]

your gonna get real far in IT if you have clearly no real interest in it besides being a click junkie.

If I knew how to I would probably prefer Linux to Windows but I don't.

more specific I'm into programming, not networks... Did I mention its my first year? or did the 69 in your name distract you?

Ok sorry I thought I was going to get an intellectual response on these forums. Guess I was wrong. Found what I was looking for though http://www.mikrotik.com. Relatively cheap too considering I know someone at a distributor in Cape Town.

 

[ponder]

more specific I'm into programming, not networks... Did I mention its my first year? or did the 69 in your name distract you?

Ok sorry I thought I was going to get an intellectual response on these forums. Guess I was wrong. Found what I was looking for though http://www.mikrotik.com. Relatively cheap too considering I know someone at a distributor in Cape Town.

Well if you are not willing to try/learn then you are not going to get very far. The responses you got I suspect was due to your attitude displayed in your first post.

 

[Lianesch]

Well if you are not willing to try/learn then you are not going to get very far. The responses you got I suspect was due to your attitude displayed in your first post.

Yea I know, still was hoping for some constructive advise and not some childish jibber. I know I'm still young but give me some slack...

Anyways mikrotik works great. Got a 711 router board from my friend to test, don't understand everything yet but getting there. Probably a little to advance for what I need it for but it does what I want. Got the throttling sorted at least. Works gr8 with Winbox, awesome little utility for windows. Can do everything from there.

 

[ponder]

Yes, the Routerboard stuff is quite nice and the RB750 is a bargain.