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I'm more worried about routers that kill my bandwidth.

Online games are running fine while downloading/uploading heavily.

[Dizzy49]

I'm sorry, but I really have to say, ARE YOU KIDDING me??

You want to do what MILLIONS of people are already happily doing, and as I have said multiple times, you are making it MUCH more difficult than it needs to be!

Get a decent router! Found mine on Amazon for $70! Throttle your damn torrents! There is *NO* need for them to be using 300-400 connections! Do some research, there is a nice balance between speed and connections. If you have too many connections you actually bog down your computer and network and LOSE SPEED! I download 3-5 files at a time, and I have my max connections set to 50 per torrent and 250 overall.

Use common sense, you obviously can't be maxing out your connection with torrents and expect latency free online gaming.

As for your information on routers, and some of the other quasi-technical things you've mentioned. I won't say it's wrong per say, but at the least it's grossly outdated. Yes, TEN YEARS AGO, a linux box routing was the way to go. Now, acheap gigabit router is better than a lot of small businesses are using.

I'm done with this thread. Buy a gigabit router, throttle your torrents, and use some common sense. End of story.

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What is your problem?
In my opinion I wrote politely.
You're taking things too personal.

As I said I don't want to buy a router. And please, but please, don't contradict me when I say that these home-end routers are limiting the number of maximum simultaneous connections and the overall throughput quite a lot. No matter what you say, they do. Test your router and see for yourself: SmallNetBuilder - Small Network Help - How We Test Hardware Routers
Or you can use NetIO.

Use common sense, you obviously can't be maxing out your connection with torrents and expect latency free online gaming.

No, I don't expect this, I expect that if I had a router, things would go as fast and as good as they went when there was no router. That's what I expect.

[retsoksirhc]

So from what I can gather, you want a software solution to a problem that hardware generally deals better with, because you're unwilling to pay for hardware that will give you the (overkill) performance you want?

If you're worried about bandwidth, get a gigabit router. If you're worried about a connection limit, install openWrt on it. If you're worried about latency, software internet sharing is a terrible idea in the first place.