Slow down torrenting/down speed

[Flashie]

Hi

 

My brother has been peeving me off for the past few days - to the point that i cannot evens watch a video on 240p on youtube without it buffering anymore, on our near 6mbps line. This is utterly annoying and the reason for it happening - is him torrenting movies and games to his PC. 

 

I myself dont torrent and dont plan on starting either - but I'd like to know if theres something (other than beating the snot out of him, or pulling his ethernet cord out, or getting a QOS router) that i can do, to lessen the absolutely insane amount of lag, buffering and ping i get as a result of his doings.

Appreciate it

Flashie

[Tedster]

Hi

 

My brother has been peeving me off for the past few days - to the point that i cannot evens watch a video on 240p on youtube without it buffering anymore, on our near 6mbps line. This is utterly annoying and the reason for it happening - is him torrenting movies and games to his PC. 

 

I myself dont torrent and dont plan on starting either - but I'd like to know if theres something (other than beating the snot out of him, or pulling his ethernet cord out, or getting a QOS router) that i can do, to lessen the absolutely insane amount of lag, buffering and ping i get as a result of his doings.

Appreciate it

Flashie

Depending on the torrent client he's using it should have a very easy-to-use bandwidth limiter in the settings menu.

[zzenigmaxzz]

if you can get access to his pc you can put a cap on the maximum download speeds so he doesnt hog all the bandwith

[Whorax]

Tell him you're telling your parents he's downloading porn and it's slowing the damn internet down.

[Oshino Shinobu]

(Torrenting isn't illegal, it's the content that can be)

 

Most torrent clients have an option to limit download speed. It may be worth digging around in your routers settings to see if you can throttle P2P traffic, though it will affect other P2P traffic, not just torrents. 

[Damikiller37]

Could be brutal and make a fake letter from your ISP saying that any further illegal downloads will result in a termination of your connection and lawsuit. Pretend as if you picked it up so your parents didn't see it to save his bacon and he might stop

[Flashie]

if you can get access to his pc you can put a cap on the maximum download speeds so he doesnt hog all the bandwith

 

 

Depending on the torrent client he's using it should have a very easy-to-use bandwidth limiter in the settings menu.

He would be able to turn that off as easy as i'd have found it

[QueenDemetria]

Hi

 

My brother has been peeving me off for the past few days - to the point that i cannot evens watch a video on 240p on youtube without it buffering anymore, on our near 6mbps line. This is utterly annoying and the reason for it happening - is him torrenting movies and games to his PC. 

 

I myself dont torrent and dont plan on starting either - but I'd like to know if theres something (other than beating the snot out of him, or pulling his ethernet cord out, or getting a QOS router) that i can do, to lessen the absolutely insane amount of lag, buffering and ping i get as a result of his doings.

Appreciate it

Flashie

Log into your router and see if there is a bandwidth limiter, then limit his IP if you can. If not then kick his ass.

 

Depending on the torrent client he's using it should have a very easy-to-use bandwidth limiter in the settings menu.

"Slow down my torrent just so you can game? No thanks."

[Flashie]

(Torrenting isn't illegal, it's the content that can be)

 

Most torrent clients have an option to limit download speed. It may be worth digging around in your routers settings to see if you can throttle P2P traffic, though it will affect other P2P traffic, not just torrents. 

 

 

Log into your router and see if there is a bandwidth limiter, then limit his IP if you can. If not then kick his ass.

 

"Slow down my torrent just so you can game? No thanks."

This is most of the options i have with the admin acc. on our poopy router

However: Under his interface - shows many android devices, that arnt connected most of the time.

[Flashie]

Log into your router and see if there is a bandwidth limiter, then limit his IP if you can. If not then kick his ass.

 

"Slow down my torrent just so you can game? No thanks."

Pretty much sounds like something he'd say

Wouldnt really stand up to a challenge with him - His something in karate like a brown belt - i dont even know 

[Flashie]

Could be brutal and make a fake letter from your ISP saying that any further illegal downloads will result in a termination of your connection and lawsuit. Pretend as if you picked it up so your parents didn't see it to save his bacon and he might stop

I'd have tried this if he wasnt the type to actually reply to the email - threatening false legal action and awaiting a reply

[tt2468]

See if you can send him another fake email, then block all traffic from his computer to the internet, then tell him that they have access to the router to do that. I personally would just block torrent sites like kickass and stuff.