Prioritizing users on 4 port router

[Lodi]

Hi all....using Ubuntu 9.04

Is it possible to set up a router so that one user has priority over the
others in speed of downloading. I'm having to share my net connection with
visiting relatives up to the new year and whenever we're online at the same
time my speeds drop whereas they seem to be unaffected.

Plus they plough through my daily cap. Grrrr.

I have a D-Link 704P which doesn't have the "rate-limiting of LAN ports"
option so some sort of clever nix network tool would be handy.

Regards
Lodi

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <heis9t$prm$1...@aioe.org>, Lodi wrote:

> Is it possible to set up a router so that one user has priority over the
> others in speed of downloading.

Quite probably. I’m looking at the iptables(8) man page, and it mentions the
CLASSIFY target, and there is more description in the tc-cbq(8) and tc-cbq-
details(8) man pages.

Disclaimer: I’ve never tried any of this.

[Richard]

www.openwrt.org

If you have a supported router and you can do it all with pretty
standard linux stuff.

Otherwise tell them no to sharing the broadband. They can get a 3g
connection or whatever.

[Sailor Sam]

You'll be rate limiting on your mac address ;)
As others have said, you're looking at an iptables based solution
(linux) I _presume_ there is a windows, or w/ever your OS choice is,
solution has the appropriate functionality.