Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

Wrt54GL + Tomato (it's a 3rd party firmware)

Tomato does Upstream and Downstream QOS
(Although the downstream is quite crude as the only way to do it is to drop packets till the other end reduces the rate they are sending at)

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

I've not used Tomato so can't comment, but DD-WRT is similar. I have mine to specifically block high volume traffic like newsgroups during peak hours. You could do something similar with your housemate - prevent him using downloading protocols like newsgroups and bittorrent during hours you specify leaving the other machines unaffected.

I've also seen reports of DD-WRT being used for chargeable hotspot setups - that's one way to get the money from your housemate :)

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

Shredder's DG834G is an ADSL modem/router.

WRT54GL is a cable router.

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

Excuse me when I go jump off a cliff...

You are of course quite right, I'm just feeling particularly dopey today :dunce:

Although I could point out that you could probably still use one although you'd basically have to plug both routers together and either Bridge the DG834 or if it doesn't support it DMZ the other router.

Is there a router than can run DD-WRT/Tomato and has an inbuilt DSL modem.

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

While I've not tried DD-WRT on a DSL router, this implies that it is now supported - you just need to find something from this rather large list.

I would upgrade the version I'm running (and have been for over 2 years now), but at the end of the day it does everything I need and more so why risk the router!

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

i have just installed a wireless setup but it is usecure how do i make it secure

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

Read the manual?

Whilst I'm here can anyone help me win the lottery? :rolleyes:

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

:welcome:

there is an article here

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34141478-post1.html

which gives some info - as Losttheplot says, any extra detail you might need should be in your router manual :)

Re: How can I prevent my housemate from accessing my wireless internet?
 

Nice thread hijacking! :tu: