My roommates watch netflixs every ****ing night and it lags the **** out of everything especially games when I have a static 300 ping in everything, and even youtube videos take forever to buffer. How can I adjust my router settings to limit the amount of bandwidth that netflix gets?

I don't know much about networking, but so far from what I've read I need to do something in the QoS setup

I'de really appreciate any help because I'de like to be reminded what it is like to have internet again

Are you paying for the internet all by yourself?

Yes? Then tell him to get the **** off.

No? Then **** off.

I'd like to know about this too. I have a roommate who plays games online every ****ing night when I'm trying to watch Netflix.

We split it, but basically they get high, spend an hour browsing netflix, turn on a movie, and then just pass out there and let it play and it just totally ****s my entire connection, im not trying to shut it off completely, it really just needs to be regulated, half the time loading a webpage can take forever

basically, I pay a fair equal share and don't get my fair share of bandwidth at all

Do you have access to your router? Does it have any 'QoS' Quality of Service options? My ancient WRT54G has a ton of options. You can give packet priority to a physical lan ports, MAC addresses, or specific applications based on TCPIP port.

Yeah I just went through that, the only things on the router are my PC, an IPhone and an unknown item which I am assuming is the x-box, I haven't found many advanced options but so far I set that device to a lower priority than mine, it did not disrupt their stream at all but so far my connection seems better

If they are high and passed out, try walking into their room and turning it off.

This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.

You're such a buzzkill, Couchman. Your ancestors invented the couch. Maybe you should sit down on one, take a few hits & pass out watching "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". That **** is ****ed up.

Must be a fairly slow connection is Netflix is capable of completely saturating it. If I recall correctly, the highest Netflix stream tops out at only 3400 kbps.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3382141&pagenumber=2#post387064659 haven't tried this and no I'm not a goon.

Risky move, I would certainly NEVER hear the end of it




Sounds dreadful. I hate even talking to my roommates when their stoned, which is almost all the time which is why I really don't socialize with them that much. They complain I don't spend enough time with them, but we will do something and they will just stare off into space instead of holding a conversation, and then just goes "Oh..wait..what". It's boring, a waste of time and stupid to try and interact with them like that.



I'm suppose to get 20 down and 1.5 up. According to Time Warner's speed test I get my full down capacity but only like 1.4ish up most of the time. I picked a really sensitive game to test my latency in last night (Counter-Strike) and had a solid 350-400 ping on all my favorites servers, and now this morning I have my normal 50 without netflix running. But it's not even sensitive games it really effects, sometimes logging into my e-mail takes an eternity.

I think the netgear router I have allows for bandwidth allocation you might want to look into something like that.

Uhm, you need to 100% confirm that it's actually his Netflix doing it. And if it is, you need to diagnose your network hardware. If you have 20mbps down, there is absolutely NO reason you should be seeing 400 ping while he streams. I have had my brother on Netflix, and my grandmother on Hulu, and my grandfather on YouTube, all at the same time, and STILL had normal ping.

TL;DR: Netflix likely isn't the problem here.

Yup, if you're really getting 20 down, then Netflix shouldn't be a problem. The only possibility is if your upload is really atrocious, but 1.4 Mbps should be more than enough communicate back to the Netflix servers and play a game at the same time. There's a weak link somewhere in your network setup if you're really getting the download and upload speeds you say.

Hahahaha, brb limiting anyone who connects to my **** to 1kB/s

Is this a wireless router? If so, is is secured? You say that it is often later that you have this problem, you may want to check and make sure that your neighbor is not running torrents off your connection over night when they are home or something.

If they are seeding or downloading at full speed then that will kill your connection big time.

I agree with everyones math that netflix shouldn't be the problem, but so far thats what the evidences points to. I only have a problem when they are browsing/streaming on it, but I just downloaded a monitoring program that shows me all the network traffic. Next time **** goes down I should be able to tell where its coming from.

EDIT: My wireless router is also passworded, it is unlikely they will guess the password

Is it using at least WPA encryption? If it's not, it will be easily broken into. (WPA isn't even all that secure, but it's a helluva lot better than WEP)

Also, a monitoring program shouldn't be able to show you all network traffic, only your own. You'd have to have the router run that software in order to do that.

It is called Traffic Shaper XP, and I can see my roommates PC's traffic as well, not just my own

and CM: It claims it is using WPA2-PSK[AES], is that sufficient?

There's an easier solution: kill the roommates and dump the bodies in a river.


Another domestic problem solved by Ghost Planet Industries.

That's funny, because I could have sworn it would be physically impossible for you to see the other PC's traffic without using an old-ass hub instead of a switch/router+switch (basically, your PC never sees the data).

I don't man, I'm the farthest thing from an expert, I don't see it now but I believe she turned her computer off before work, but it definately was on their when I saw her using it a moment earlier.

That is for the most part, the best you can get in wireless security. Breaking the password for that often requires a MITM Attack which would kick you off so you would notice if someone was doing that.

Well, it seems to be netflix, whenever I do a speed test I get my normal 20 mbps down and 1.5 mbps up, but now that they are watching it literally says I'm getting 1.4ish down and .4 up

Literally

That's not normal. Time to start diagnosing hardware, like the router or the modem.

I would suggest calling your ISP to verify that there's no issue on their end. These employees are often incompetent but they're often semi-capable of diagnosing issues on their own end (everything is automated for them) or at least getting assistance from someone that can. They'll do much more for you if you sound like you have some idea of what you're talking about. If you're able to find your own IP address you've already surpassed the knowledge that 95% of them had when they took that job. You're mainly interesting in getting them to delete/re-add your MAC address to their system, in them verifying (through you, likely) that your signal strength is within acceptable parameters (take notes in case you call back again because they'll often lie about this in order to keep their call-time low...they have a quota to maintain) & them verifying that you're set up for the proper package that you're paying for (you'd be surprised at how many people are paying for a faster package & were never actually upgraded). Although they're limited in what they'll do for you, the chat help at most ISPs are a bit more knowledgable, because they've typically been promoted, so you may wish to start there (beyond a point they'll have you join the call queue).

This should probably all occur after you've at least done some basic troubleshooting on your end.

Yeah my first guess is the ISP is throttling streaming or something.