Hello, I have a little problem: I have a home network with my neighbours and some guy downloads movies and stuff all the time, so i can't play online games because of high latency.. We have an ADSL Modem - Thomson Speedtouch 546. The software on the cd does not seem to have any option to limit download/upload speed.. i heard with linux it's possible to do this but i don't have it and never used it.. so is there any windows program or something to do this?? Oh, and another problem: of someone in our network gets banned on a hub or server, the whole network gets banned. Is there some way to solve this? Thanks

In terms of the issue of network limiting. I know there are ways to limit bandwidth use to users and from my experience is usually setup in the router/firewall. I know that probably isn't of much help. In terms of the banning of your entire network from an external site if one user screws up: If I had to take a guess about your network setup, you only have 1 IP address from the ISP, and then have a router running NAT. Therefore, if one user behind the router does something to get banned from a site, all users will be banned from the site, because the site is banning the 1 IP address from the ISP. It doesn't distinguish users that are behind a NAT router.

your resolution is going to be to get your own, private internet access.

My thoughts exactly Sanchez. Obviously you're sharing your internet with an idiot who care's not about your gaming or access. I don't need to ask what he's done to get banned from certain sites.......I've run into far too many people like that. I used to share my internet with 2 neighbours while living in an apartment. The one neighbour liked to download movies all day and all night long. It interfered with my online gaming. My solution was to simply unplug him from the switch when I wanted to game and when he showed up to ask why he had no connectivity I simply explained that I was busy playing my game but in an hour or two when I was finished I would get it fixed up. When I was finished, I plugged him back in and called him and told him to see if it was working again....which it was. He never caught on. Just a thought....

Here is what you do, this is what I do - setup a syslog server and log all Internet traffic to a syslog server - I use Adventnet firewall analyzer - it tells me who is doing what. before hand so I can shut them down or block access to that site . It sounds like your admins is not doing a good job following-up with anything Buddy

thanks but.. it still doesn't work.. i've installed a lot of programs that are supposed to view or limit bandwidth but none of them works. I'm connected directly to the modem and the others are connected through a switch. Is it because of that? Hello, I have a little problem: I have a home network with my neighbours and some guy downloads movies and stuff all the time, so i can't play online games because of high latency.. We have an A