Hi all. My roomate downloads movies with .bittorrent client (p2p network). I don't care what he does except that now my internet conneciton is 10 times slower than normal. It's too slow to play WoW now. Is there anything I can do about this problem, besides asking him to stop downloading, which I already tried? BTW: My comptuer is connecting to the comcast router (actually it's netgear) via a wireless connection. thanks!

Traffic-Shaping would help. Usually its not the download that sucks, but the upload in a p2p network. You can buy a new router which support traffic-shaping or use some driver like cFos.

You could ask your roommate to install an application like netlimiter to throttle the speed that his bittorrent app uses. Michael J

I assume finding a new roommate is out of the question. Well, there are many bittorrent applications that both throttle the upload/download speed AND schedule more convenient times to automatically d/l files. Here's one as an example: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Figure out a time when d/ling files isn't going to interfere with your gaming and get him to schedule the d/ls for those times. If he doesn't want to do that your choices are limited: Either put up with it, buy him his own T1 line, or find a new roommate.

Most Torrent Clients have settings that can be set to limit the download and upload speeds. Fed up with Windows? Try Ubuntu Linux

Is there anything I can do about this problem, besides asking him to stop downloading, which I already tried? Simple enough, when you want to play, unplug him. When you're done, plug him back in.

Here is the problem. People seem to think that on a shared connection the OTHER person is sucking all the bandwidth. If you understood it a bit more you'd realize two people in fact share the true bandwidth fairly. I wouldn't blame the ISP rather I'd suspect that under high use your cheap soho router is proving it is really a cheap old hub. Any time you go above 30-40% your system will actually go slower. I'd say get a enterprise level switch and set it up and you will get some better numbers. Or get your own ISP.