Limiting bandwidth usage

Aastii

Aastii

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Is there a way to limit how much bandwidth a computer, a program, or preferably a website uses?

Whenever anyone goes on facebook in the house (which is what my parents and sister live on) the internet clows to a crawl, making browing the internet or gaming impossible.

Is there a way to limit the bandwidth on the site much lower than what it is, for the internet on those computers so it is fair use, or even the whole computer, any would be fixes
 
i know that for newer lynksis router you can set priorities that that your computer gets most bandwidth.
 
I also would like to know. My roommate has been torrenting a lot lately, and it makes the net unusable for everyone else. I would like to find a way to split the bandwidth available in 1/3 so that we all get equal speed.
 
See if your routers support QoS (quality of service) and they can limit bandwidth per an application. So, for example, uTorrent could be limited to x amount of total bandwidth being used and so forth. Advanced configurations would even let you set up times of the day where the QoS was lifted or enforced.

Not all routers support this feature.
 
tlarkin said:
See if your routers support QoS (quality of service) and they can limit bandwidth per an application. So, for example, uTorrent could be limited to x amount of total bandwidth being used and so forth. Advanced configurations would even let you set up times of the day where the QoS was lifted or enforced.

Not all routers support this feature.
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I have never heard of that before.

I have the router Virgin give you, Netgear WGR614

http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_firewall_router_wgr614.php

do you know if they will support it (I am lazy and this is the quickest way and it is late, I can't call support and ask until tomorrow :P). Or can you tell me what to look for?
 
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