Is there any way I can limit my little brother's internet?

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I play the game World of Warcraft and I've found it impossible to play lately with latencies of 16000 ms or more. Recently my little brother's friend came over and taught him about a thing called torrents. Now he wants to download crap 24/7 and I have to go into his room every 5 minutes and tell him to cut it out so I can actually enjoy playing some WoW. I'm getting really tired of this because every time I turn around he's doing it again and I'm tired of it.

Now here's my edge over him:

He's using a laptop and the wireless router is in my room. But I can't just unplug it, my ether net cord comes from it so I'd be out of luck too.

I was just thinking that there might be something to do to limit his bandwidth because I'm growing extremely tired of this and no, "Just go kick his *ss!" is not an option because he always gets his way but he'd be too dumb to notice that he was using less bandwidth. Anything helps! Thanks.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

disable the wireless capabilities inside the router when you want to play your game.  This will totally cut him off and you will be able to enjoy full bandwidth for WOW

tarkesh m · Answer

If you have access to your home wireless router, you can once sneak in your borthers computer, find out the torrent data ports and in your wireless network configuration, you can block those ports when ur are palying WoW. Your brother will simply think that there is something wrong with the tracker. ;) unfortunately nothing to control the bandwidth

Adrian · Answer

If your home router has a QoS, you can set priority in there, for any given port. SO, if you have QoS, you determine which ethernet port you are plugged into, and give it "high" priority. Give the rest medium or low.
That way, when you are on, your ethernet traffic gets first dibs, and your brother gets what ever is left over. When you are not on, your brother gets it all since no one else needs it at that time.

If your router does not have QoS, then not much you can do except throttle him at his computer, which he may bypass on his own anyway. The key is having a router that has QoS, most newer ones do now-a-days.

Anonymous · Answer

Why do you get what you want and he gets nothing?
Who are you to delegate the bandwidth?
If this is something your parents are paying for, it should be up to them..


okay, now the devious way

Let me say this, what you are doing is legal...

99.9% of all torrents are illegal...tell your parents what your brother is doing and you will have all the bandwidth you want

Anonymous · Answer

Disable the wireless network in your house. Google your router/modem and get directions on how to turn off your wireless internet. Sometimes you can do it from your router's "website". To find your router's "site", go to :

Start>Run>cmd>ipconfig /all

take your ip address from that list, and put it in your browser's address bar, and see if the site it takes you to will let you adjust your wireless internet settings. you might need a password to access it though, so I hope you're on well with your parents.

xelanil · Answer

tell your parents about it and that it's illegal and also show them this article http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/minnesota.music.download.fine/

a woman downloaded music illegally much like what your brother is doing and got fined 1.9 million bucks and Im pretty sure your parents do not want to pay 1.9 million bucks because of him.

Stephen P · Answer

parental controls will solve the problem,some of them have timers
that you can set to control the amount of time you can use
the net.

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