Bandwidth Limiting Software

[llwyd]

Right, I've officially had enough of my sister lagging me out during CSS matches and need some sort of easy and quick to set up app that will allow me to restrict her to about 50% of our DL and 25% of our UL. Also I need to be able to hide the tray icon so nobody asks any questions

That's basically all i need out of it, although being able to set time parameters would be a bonus

Thanks in advance

 

[FarFarAway]

Does your router not have QoS? You could set it to reserve bandwidth for you.

 

[llwyd]

Yea it offers High, Medium and Low priority for HTTP, FTP, Telnet, POP3, SMTP and three optional ports so im guessing just add the ports that CSS uses and put it to high priority ?

I'll give it a go but i'm not sure how effective it will be

 

[JN]

Yea it offers High, Medium and Low priority for HTTP, FTP, Telnet, POP3, SMTP and three optional ports so im guessing just add the ports that CSS uses and put it to high priority ?

I'll give it a go but i'm not sure how effective it will be

Yep thats basically the long and short of it. However, it's not going to work in every case for you as CSS servers could be on any port (normally > 27015)

 

[llwyd]

yea plus having HTTP on low priority makes pages load stupidly slow, even when steam isnt running.

back to the original plan then lol

 

[equk]

If you have a custom firmware for the Linksys WRT54G you could setup a transparent proxy (eg: squid without caching) and just write a ssh command to enable/disable bandwidth limiting.

I used to do that on squid with my old firewall system when I had a quake3 match just so if my bro was downloading it wouldn't lag me out

Might be a bit involved tho. Otherwise QoS is pretty good.

 

[nathan]

If you have a custom firmware for the Linksys WRT54G you could setup a transparent proxy (eg: squid without caching) and just write a ssh command to enable/disable bandwidth limiting.

I used to do that on squid with my old firewall system when I had a quake3 match just so if my bro was downloading it wouldn't lag me out

Might be a bit involved tho. Otherwise QoS is pretty good.

wooooooo, someone mentioned squid!!!!! can i pick your brains equk, pleeeeease!

 

[FarFarAway]

My Draytek does QoS very very well, no lag at all

 

[llwyd]

If you have a custom firmware for the Linksys WRT54G you could setup a transparent proxy (eg: squid without caching) and just write a ssh command to enable/disable bandwidth limiting.

I used to do that on squid with my old firewall system when I had a quake3 match just so if my bro was downloading it wouldn't lag me out

Might be a bit involved tho. Otherwise QoS is pretty good.

eh? my router is a WAG54G V.2. Would it still work? if so, how would i go about doing it?

 

[equk]

eh? my router is a WAG54G V.2. Would it still work? if so, how would i go about doing it?

Looks like that router is supported by opwnwrt so it might be possible, altho I'm not sure what sort of mem etc it has.

There are a few you could try I guess

http://www.hyperwap.org/

http://openwrt.org/

I'm using DD-WRT, but am not sure if your router is supported by it.