and it'll be cheaper too!
1 bat
2 ear plugs so i don't hear the screams
(optional batting gloves)
[quote="Clay Pigeon";p="55204"]I know this is going to sound odd, but have you considered talking to your roommate and asking him to limit his bandwidth usage? Im sure whatever he is using can be configured to not hog all the bandwidth.[/quote]
definitely going to check out the bandwith limiting thing. talking things out is whole different issue/headache.
[quote="Buzzy Beetle";p="55207"][quote="Clay Pigeon";p="55204"]I know this is going to sound odd, but have you considered talking to your roommate and asking him to limit his bandwidth usage? Im sure whatever he is using can be configured to not hog all the bandwidth.[/quote]
Pfft... that's if you want to take the easy way out >D[/quote]
after missing many hours on our ville servers...i would love to have an easy button.
[quote="Simple";p="55225"]Get one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833127158 or one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833127215 and set it up so you have priority and you'll be set.
[/quote]haha maybe after the holidays and if nothing else helps. *makes bunny ears out of empty pockets*
[quote="nmeboat";p="55227"]alot of new routers out now have QoS (quality of service, ie, packet shaping) built-in, where you can essentially tell the router how to prioritize traffic. ie, you could limit your roomate's bandwidth to only be able to pull through like 100KB/s, while you get 100% of available bandwidth. or maybe even limit it to applications, like if his d/l's are bittorrent, then you can set it to limit bittorrent traffic to a specified speed/bandwidth.
heck, which router do you have? it may already be one of them with QoS built-in already
dlink (and i imagine the other big networking co's), actually have router marketed as a "gaming" router, which i believe just uses QoS for certain types of traffic already setup.well any case, you will probably want to check more into QoS (quality of service)/packet shaping/etc, because even if you do decide to bump up you service speed, you will have the same problem, because instead of him d/l-ing at 500KB/s (hypothetically speaking) which is you current max speed, then he'll be d/l-ing at 900KB/s and you'll still be trying to vie for your little 30KB/s for when you're gaming...
and i i 'preview', it looks like Simple posted a push in the router direction
[/quote]that's a great idea...the router is a couple years old but i know it was never advertised as a gaming router. hopefully mine has those options though and i can put the limiter on him.
thanks everyone... as always...
