Bandwidth Throttling
 

The kids are realising that they can chew up hundreds of meg a day with voice clips, file transfers and webcams of their friends on MSN Messenger.

To put this into a few words, it naffs me off.
Despite telling them to try and cut down (or better still stop - they can talk to them on the phone, we have the free evening and weekend calls package) it doesnt seem to work.

My main question is: Is it possible (either by software to go on their machine (preferably one that can be hidden or passworded) or a setting on my Netgear MR814 v2 Router) to throttle their connection so they can only use a certain amount of the broadband connection (therefore not lagging me and my partner out of what we were doing)?

We are on the 2Mb connection package at the moment (comes via STB).

If not, how can I stop incoming voice clips and ability to view other people's webcams on their machine? They are using MSN 7.5 at the minute.

Seems harsh I know, but they seem to ignore what myself and my partner ask them to do half the time - they're little angels outside though (of course - makes everyone think we're talking about different kids when we complain!!). We have an MSN Messenger Log program running in the background just incase the worst should happen basically so the chances of being able to use another client are slim :(

Thanks in advance for any help :)

Re: Bandwidth Throttling
 

You could install Netlimiter (its not free though) It might be possible to run it in the background without them knowing

Re: Bandwidth Throttling
 

I could be wrong but I suspect the voice and video run over different ports to the standard IM protocol - if you block those ports you block the voice and video.

Can't help you with what those ports are though.