Currently living in shared accomodation, and from time to time some of the other people that live here is downloading/uploading to a very extensive amount.

To the point that I cannot even browse the internet! And It's bloody annoying!

Is there anyway to limit the speed of each computer? Without having to install an application on each machine?

I'm pretty sure there is a way of doing it but this is not a LFS technical issue.

You want google and network specific forums for this kind of thing.

Yes I am aware that it is not a LFS issue - but I also know that the guys that use the forum regually are decent fella's!

I've literally had a 5 second scout around on the first page of google, just looking at the paraphrased descriptions, and it looks like the home hub supports QoS (Quality of Service). Your best bet would be to logon to the "home hub" itself and check out the interface. I've never seen one myself, but I'd imagine that it would allow you to do one of several things, which includes prioritising traffic and physical ethernet ports. Obviously I can't confirm this though.

Meh - Maybe it needs an updated firmware for that.

Other trouble is, its all brached off a single ethernet port.

I had a look at QoS in my BT voyager config manager and it's seems to priorities the connections to the internet into low, medium and high and not set a limit to everyone’s usage as such. It also warns of setting those, low, medium and high correctly, if you set everyone to the same level an individual can still hog all the bandwidth as before.

Unless someone here has done the same thing then you'll not really move forward, I wasn't saying this is not a LFS tech issue to be a dick more to say that it's a pretty specific problem that will need more detailed help.

Had exactly the same problem as you when I was living in shared accomodation.

Unless the router, in your case, home hub, supports QoS, the only way (I could find) to do it is to setup a linux server and sort out QoS via that or setup QoS software on each client machine, however, knowing people that live in shared accomodation, it's unlikely.

I looked for every possible soloution, and I couldn't find one, it was a bloody nightmare, the only way I could solve it, was to politely ask that my housemates to refrain from excessive bandwidth hogging between the hours of say 8-10pm.