P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use?

An anonymous reader writes "My housemate uses an aggressive P2P client, that when in use makes the Internet unusable for everyone else connected to the network. After hearing about various ISPs shaping traffic to reduce P2P traffic, I was wondering if there was a solution for managing P2P traffic on a home network. I have a Linksys WRT54G available for hacking. Can Slashdot recommend a way to reduce the impact of P2P on my network and make it usable again?"

In the days of Napster

[eric76]

In the days of Napster, a nephew of mine spent a year living with me while going to college nearby.

His use of Napster would make the cable modem connection unusable. In response, I'd go to the home firewall device (had one of the early Linksys models) and block the traffic.

He thought the cable company was doing it.

Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

Beat the shit out of the fucker.

Anonymous Coward

[Anonymous Coward]

Switch to Comcast!

Re:Anonymous Coward

[OMNIpotusCOM]

LOL. You win, thread over.

Re:In the days of Napster

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course, you could try talking to him, but then if he refuses it ruins the credability of the above plan somewhat.

Not at all. After he refuses to talk about it, you block his traffic then when he says something's up you say "Shit! I tried to talk to you about this but you wouldn't listen. I knew this would happen. The Cable Company must be fucking with our access. They've probably told the police too! Right... you hide in the attic until this blows over. I'll say you've fled to Brazil or something."

Re:Need more input!

[Divebus]

Simple - take a BIG HAMMER to his computer.

Re:All major clients, but it still requires talkin

[PC and Sony Fanboy]

tell him that his .torrent-ing is adversely affecting your social life on WoW. He'll either understand, or not.

If not, just use some DPS and hide behind the couch....

There can be only ONE!!!

[rts008]

Nerf guns at 20 paces, last nerd standing wins!

Re:QoS

[Easy2RememberNick]

Lock down the router with a password and then put epoxy or superglue over the router reset button. If it's already protected reset it, put your own password there and then do all that.

  Even better hide the router inline where the cable comes into the house, they'll never know ;)

  FYI DD-WRT or Tomato are two good router firmware replacements.

Get Your Own Connection

[rueger]

Instead of cheaping out spend $30 a month for your own cable or DSL connection. Or, as many have suggested, just talk to the guy.

Barring that just connect the 220v dryer line to the wall socket in his room and hope that he got his power bar for $5.99 at WalMart.

Or even better please all of your room-mates and just move.

Do this....

[thetoadwarrior]

Tell him if he doesn't stop using P2P while everyone else is awake and using the net then you're going to cave his skull in with his monitor.

You'll either make him stop or make him press charges. Either way it probably won't be an issue for you anymore.

From the Slashdot crowd?

[Serenissima]

I'm sure the reaction of physical violence isn't one most Slashdot readers would take. All that heavy breathing would just tire us out too quickly.

Re:Need more input!

[djdavetrouble]

I was thinking electromagnet for some traffic shaping...
Heeeeeere data data data.....

Don't Answer Him... It's a TRAP

[Ralph Spoilsport]

He's from the RIAA, and he's part of a research to find ways to fix the problem at the root.

Re:Need more input!

[Charcharodon]

I took the BIG Hammer to the roommate, nothing wrong with the computer.