Some QoS help.

[JTse]

Details:
Recently (About a month) someone has been eating a boatload of bandwidth on our connection, I don't know whether its my little brother or my eldest brother because I don't get along with either of them. To make matters worse, my second oldest brother drops in with his laptop on the weekends and my mom recently learned how to use the old VAIO.

Solution:
I just want my share of bandwidth for Counter-Strike, it doesn't take that much at all and I would really like to stop playing at 3AM in the morning just for a lag free game.

Problem:
I don't know what to do, how do I dish out even amounts of bandwidth for every connection? Or I could just enable a certain amount for steam or CS. I've looked on google, it isn't very helpful.
Here is what I get when I enter my router/gateway: http://i44.tinypic.com/jzwhzs.png

Thankx.

 

[TrainTrackHack]

What router is it? Chances are you can install custom firmware on your router that allows far greater control and over QoS settings and actually works better. Those settings are really limited in options to be honest...

However, as to your current firmware:
Upstream bandwidth specifies the maximum upstream bandwidth so it can allocate it appropriately. It's usually better to set it a little below the rated speed (for example, my current internet plan is advertised as 64KBps upstream, in QoS settings I set it as 56). Note: the number it's asking is in kilobits per second, not kilobytes (like my firmware).

Then, device priority. You can simply set the priority for individual devices on the network by MAC address - you'll most likely want your computer here. To find the MAC address of your computer's network devices, you'll need to use the ipconfig tool from command like (type "ipconfig /all" and look for physical address).

As for the rest, the tips on the right-hand corner should be self-explanatory...

EDIT: NOTE: If they're doing some heavy downloading, this won't help all that much... the router can control upstream traffic and decide what gets sent up and when, but it has no control over downstream traffic.