Roomate Hogging all of the Bandwidth

don0223 hath wroth:

Which hardware version of the WRT54G? If it's v1 thru v4, then you can install DD-WRT or OpenWRT firmware which include QoS (quality of service) bandwidth management features.

Note that it can be simultaneously used to throttle your roommates traffic and be optimized for gaming.

However, if your hardware revision is v5-v8, forget it. There's not enough RAM inside to do anything beyond the basic router functions.

Is there some reason you won't identify the mysterious "stuff" that doesn't work?

The micro version of DDWRT includes QoS and runs on Linksys V5 and higher.

I am running DD-WRT v23 SP3 (07/21/07) micro, (SVN revision 7509) in a WRT54GS v5. It does have QoS, I do have it turned on though I don't have a roommate to stress test it. I don't have WiFi turned on, so I don't know how well that works. Average, I suppose.

Before I scrounged up a spare GS, I had a plain v5 which locked up and had to be power cycled fairly often, usually during bittorrents. Sorry, I don't remember the exact version of DD-WRT. Something 6 to 12 months older.