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Topic: Sister is eating my bandwidth please help
Imperial
Posts: 368
Location: Brisbane, Queensland

Hey all, i've got a problem with whenever my sister uses msn, or browses the internet on her computer it slows mine to a halt almost (999 connection interupted in quake3 and slow loading websites).

Surely simply her browsing and using msn cant be enough to f*** me up like that can it? We're both running winxp pro, my computer has the modem on it and is sharing it to her computer. Anyone know of any GOOD free programs to cut her bandwidth availability riiiiight down? We're on Bigpond Cable by the way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Cam.
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Astroboy
Posts: 4175
Location: Germany
she can eat something of mine
Protius
Posts: 3675
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Slap her down.
Super Nintendo Chalmers
Posts: 122
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
Ravnos or astrobear on the gamearena forum will have some info for you surely.
Bah
Posts: 2477
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
surely
reso
I can't read
Posts: 4006
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Sister?
Lynx
Posts: 624
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I had the same problem with my sister on msn limewire and myspace 24/7.
Uninstall her internets and blame it on a virus, I did.
whoop
Posts: 11307
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Buy a hardware router, turn on QoS and limit the physical port she's on. Windows ICS is bollocks for any sort of control of stuff.

Free solutions I don't know about but net limiter would probably do the trick, not sure of any free variants though.

Imperial
Posts: 369
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Thanks Lynx but my sister and mum are to smart for that. And yes reso i have a sister, im sure brendan has told ya about her :)
sleepy
Posts: 422
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
had a similar problem. just swapped ports and i got right of way. dont understand how the s*** works.
B@ssM@n
Posts: 1075
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Is something uploading like hell?
Superform
Posts: 4324
Location: Cairns, Queensland
send her over to my place.. and you can have the net to urself...
stewbie
Posts: 4118
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
imperial has a porn problem lol
mooby
Posts: 3442
Location: UK
Thanks Lynx but my sister and mum are to smart for that


Too ; )
Slappercx
Posts: 1889
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
all the freakey horse porn they lookin at. I once . What is there Home page set on Cam :P
Marty
tubby
Posts: 1061
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I don't care about her using your bandwidth, but what does matter is whether she's hot?
Slappercx
Posts: 1890
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Pics or Lying Get it all out
Slappercx
Posts: 1891
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
http://users.static.freeblog.hu/b/o/s/boston/files/fat%20women.jpg


dont worry imperial said dont post it up. But we will. She is one in middle
koopz
Posts: 6188
Location: Queensland
get a better net connection..


anything with 256k upload should be okay... if you were to goto 512k+ up you could also be of better assistance to the local torrent linux iso sharing community
Superform
Posts: 4326
Location: Cairns, Queensland
i'd hit it
Alize`
Posts: 546
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
I play cs source fine with three others surfing the net at the same time on TPG 1500 connection so I imagine the bigpond cable net speed isn't the problem.
Two&Eight
Posts: 190
Location: UK
I play cs source fine with three others surfing the net at the same time on TPG 1500 connection so I imagine the bigpond cable net speed isn't the problem.


Speaking of CS: Source.... I recently gave WoW the finger and really miss shooting people directly in the face and calling people f*****s. However I haven't played since 1.6, where all you need was HL. Do I need HL2 to play source or can I just cruise into EB and say "1 source plz"?

sleepy
Posts: 423
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
medium rare HL2 source for free.

last edited by sleepy at 22:51:44 15/May/07
whoop
Posts: 11310
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
you can install steam and buy cs source all by itself over the internet. I don't know if it's a separate sale in stores though, I got it on cd with hl2.
slyin
Posts: 22
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
im in cams thread
TiT
Posts: 1149
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
netlimiter!!!!!!!!!
infi
Posts: 5899
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
mate i would bash her, simple.
CaPt0
Posts: 5878
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Chances are she has spyware on her machine or something like that hammering the net. If it is n't spyware it would be a virus.

Instll windows defender and do a full spyware scan and then isntall avg and ru na full virus scan.

Windows Defender:
http://www.microsoft.com

AVG:
http://free.grisoft.com
B.Hardball
Posts: 6313
Location: Brisbane, Queensland

Post her msn details and the boys of QGL will have a chat with her and sort it all out.
TicMan
Posts: 2044
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
She's probably firing up her camwhore profile which would account for the outbound bandwidth usage killing your link.
giririsss
Posts: 2448
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Captos advice is probably right.

Her machine probably has some spyware on there that is trying to open 100,000,000 ports all at once and in doing so, kills the net (and her pc performance too).
Tanaka Khan
Posts: 4117
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Just curious as to who is paying for the internet, you or mum and dad?
Tollaz0r!
Posts: 7794
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
It sounds to me like you are running out of upload bandwidth. Cable should easily be able to handle you playing games and her viewing and downloading stuff. However aus broadband in general has really crap upload bandwidth and it dosnt take much to chew it all up. Specially if you or your sis has spyware/virus on your putur's doing some secret upload business.
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