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troopy712139
8y

I love how the people that stay here at this student accommodation uses the WiFi without consideration. There is about 14 people in the house with maybe 2 devices that connects to the WiFi, which connects to an ADSL line that has a speed of 10mbps. One of my roommates, video calls on Skype with his gf or whoever DAILY. You probably expect them to be talking and stuff right? No, they just have video call on but not talking just doing their own thing on their phones and stuff... Wtf? Dont they realise they hogging up the bandwidth?

Every time I restart the WiFi he waits for the connection to be up and goes back to having the video call up but not chatting... Ffs...

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  • 0
    8y
    Guess its encrypted, otherwise could be cool to have a local cache that would save you bw.
  • 5
    8y
    You should tell him, he won't notice by himself
  • 2
    8y
    Get a better connection... i would go on a murderous rampage even if i had the "whole" connection for myself.
  • 0
    8y
    I'm in a third world country, 10mbps ADSL line is the best we can get right now unfortunately.
  • 3
    8y
    Depending on your router you could tweak prioritisation, otherwise I would just set specific times his device to be blocked! Of course he will wonder what's wrong, just act innocent and blame his device 😈
  • 1
    8y
    @koukou haha I would love to do that but we got our WiFi router from our ISP which has a firmware that has a lot of restrictions. I can't even deactivate a device... Its so sad.
  • 0
    8y
    @troopy712139 oh come on most of the isp routers I be seen offer to block devices.. have another look ;) what's your router make/model?
  • 0
    8y
    @koukou technicolor TG589vn v3
  • 1
    8y
    @troopy712139 it is possible! I found this guide for v2 I'm assuming the same will apply to v3 https://spark.co.nz/content/dam/... go to section 9 ;)
  • 0
    8y
    @koukou the only thing I found in section 9 of that manual is the address filtering which won't stop the Skype thing and the address filtering doesn't work anyways, I set it to block YouTube but i am still able to access YouTube.
  • 1
    8y
    @troopy712139 9.3-9.4 you want to block specific devices, and they will not have access altogether. It's done by blocking the MAC address of the device
  • 2
    8y
    @koukou he can set a different MAC address fairly easily tho
  • 1
    8y
    Dont care, told the host about the issue. I got the privilege to change the WiFi password. Hehe
  • 3
    8y
    @troopy712139 goodness :D
  • 1
    8y
    @yarwest true, but I don't his roommate will think of it
  • 0
    8y
    @yarwest Spoofing a MAC address is not that easy and if he knew it was his MAC being blocked he'd probably confront you first surely?
  • 2
    8y
    @kian there is plenty of software that can do the trick
  • 0
    8y
    @yarwest Yeah but it's probably not something the average Joe would think of or figure out
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