Roomate internet battles

[sb]

Whenever my roommate is using the internet(often), the connection will give him preference, particularly if he is using Limewire or uTorrent. I understand that both of these programs can be bandwidth intensive, but they shouldn't be bringing my bandwidth to the crawl or near standstill that I get put in. The issue is, I'm not just referring to MMO usage, I have issues with loading simple websites.

I'm not that technical a person, but I was wondering how other people handle this type of situation. I think this might be a router driven issue, however perhaps there is something that can be done within the preferences of the router or these programs to help the issue.

[Shuemue]

Just set bandwidth limits on the file sharing apps you both use. Limit them to say, 75% of your overall bandwidth to leave a chunk for other stuff.

[Isiolia]

It's partly throttling, but Bittorrent specifically is known to cause more issues than most. There was an article recently with some potential fixes in the comments http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36 ... fault.aspx

Personally, I generally only leave torrents up when I'm asleep or at work. Maybe choose a machine between the two of you and just leave it running when you're not trying to use the connection otherwise.

[The Stig]

In my shared house where everyone torrents, I force everyone to use Azureus where the upload can be capped. Generally I know that this is more harmful to the overall torrent that can be seeded/shared. I'm not sure of what other client can control the upload speeds, but in the house of 5 here I get them all to change it to 2kb/s upload and unlimited/fastest download. The result is that the internet feels "normal" and nothing is ever too slow, compared to them uncapping their uploads, resulting in everyone's net to be slow.