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Hello, I have four computers in my household, and I have a wireless router, that's secured. I want to limit the bandwidth of a certain computer. How do I do this without touching the actual computer? Is there any programs? My router is netgear, and I'm running Windows XP Pro.

The reason is I let a tenant live upstairs but he's hogging all the bandwidth, I can't rudely cut off his internet connection or ask him to stop using it since his job depends on uploading files each night.

Thanks in advance for the help.

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Member Avatar for DimaYasny

wht you need is a router with a QoS module, or a firewall/gateway with such a module.

Member Avatar for Smartedpanda

My NetGear WGT624v3 doesn't have a "QoS module" option, and neither does my firewall. Do you have any suggestions?

Member Avatar for Spriggan

you could re-flash your router to be a little more feature filled using something like dd-wrt.

or you could buy a better on. Software is not really an option in this case, but maybe a proxy server...

Member Avatar for DenisOxon

Hi,

Have you spoken to him and asked him to delay the upload until after midnight ?

Maybe he does not realise the hassle he is causing.

Denis

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