Online gaming over shared connection

[dabean]

I have a netgear dg834 router (wired) which i use to share my dsl with my flatmate.

The problem is that whenever he browses while I'm on a game server I lag a lot and my ping is erratic.

I've tried using netlimiter to drop his speed to 16KB/sec (he doesn't mind), but that has virtually no effect. I also can't find any way to split the bandwith on the router.

Someone on the game server told me they make two connections on the same line and then neither affects each other. From that I gather I need to install PPPoE on each machine and use the router as a modem. Is this possible using the netgear?

If that is the only solution doesn't it mean I wasted my money on the firewall etc if I'm bypassing it totally?

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[wab512]

I don't know the Netgear router, but that would not solve your problem completely. I also have a shared connection and two accounts over the same line. When the other user is busy downloading (browsing is ok), I also get serious lag. The only way to make this better is to have a firewall / router that can do TOS (out of my experience).

 

[dabean]

Thanks for the info.

You wouldn't perhaps know of a make/model router that would work, or are we talking REALLY EXPENSIVE here?

 

[wab512]

I'm using a normal ethernet Alcated Speedtouch Modem (no router) and the Linux Firewall/Router that does the rest. Unfortunately I am not too clued up on all the available routers :-(

 

[Spamtheman]

The only way I can see it really working well is to use FreeBSD and IPFW which has some really cool bw shaping tools

 

[antowan]

Hi

Your ADSL line can only put through as much as it says it can. Running two different accounts on the same line is not going to put out effectively 2 x 512. More like 512/2. Using two accounts does however hold the advantage of better bandwidth managment in the sense that traffic can be put through a little more efficiently because each account has an allocated IP address to which packets can be fielded. If not, then the packets must be processed and directed through a CPU intensive process...

Thus using two accounts is wise, though not the complete solution you were looking for...

Cheers
Antowan

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[dabean]

Thanks for the replies.

For interests sake the problem was not actually the bandwidth being used (netlimiter was doing it's job), but the fact that he was using p2p to download with. I figured this out as soon as I took a look at the firewall logs. The sheer number of connections involved was overloading the router and causing the latency problems.

Simple solution: blocked all ports from 111 upwards to his pc since I paid for pretty much everything. Hey presto, no lag.

 

[rsachoc]

Just to add something to the mix, the Linksys WRT54G with modified firmware can do QOS.

Choc