How do I set priority?

So I have a D-link DIR-655 and my neighbor has asked to leech off my wireless for a little bit (she's moving out in a few weeks). I didn't mind obliging but I want to make sure that I get the brunt of the bandwidth. How do I set up the router so that my machines get priority over hers? Please let me know, thanks.

 

It is mostly likely against your isp's tos to share your internet with your neighbors. Sorry.

 

Is she cute? (Hey! You're the one who wants help getting your priorities straight, right? What's got a higher priority than that - unless you're married? ).

 

LOL, well I have a gf and my neighbor about 10-15 years older than me. Can someone please help me with this though?

 

Look in your router...they are all different. I know my linksys would allow this. Dunno if yours does though. Just tab through and see if you see it okay? Btw your isp can terminate your connection if they find out.

 

how is it any different from someone coming over to your place and them using your wireless while they're there?

As for the router, I tabbed through everything but really didn't see anything to directly set the priority (seems to be buried in other settings).

 

It would be easy if you had a Dual-Band N router - all you'd need to do is let her have access to one of the network bands herself. Since you don't have that, the easiest way to do it is with your Router's Quality of Service setting (assuming D-Link has that, but I'm sure they do).

QoS allows you to set priority access for programs, applications, and most importantly, systems or game consoles by MAC Address. All you need to do is to setup your systems for Priority 'net access by MAC address. QoS is in Applications and Gaming on a Linksys DBN router, so it should be similar for yours - check your manual. Once your systems are setup for Priority Access, you'll have priority over all other connections using your wireless.

It's simple to setup. If you don't know your system MAC Address, open your System Tools (Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools) and then click on System Information. From there click on Network, then Adapters, then scroll down until you find your system network adapter MAC address. There's usually more than one so make sure you get them all and add each one.

 

because if the isp allowed it then joe in the middle of the block could get a powerful router and share internet with the whole block, charging them a small fee and the isp would only get payment from one household. thats why

 

If you have the user manual (if you don't, you can d/l it from the dlink support website directly here), go to page 43, which is where the WISH functionality (aka Wireless Intelligent Stream Handling) is described. It looks like you can use that to configure a rule that would apply only to the IP address that gets assigned to your neighbor (assuming you've successfully dealt with the ISP issue) that would allow you to assign all of the traffic to and from that IP address to the status of background (BK) or best effort (BE), which are the two lowest-priority settings for WISH. Doing so would effectively reserve most of the bandwidth for yourself because anytime there was a potential conflict between your packets and hers, yours would get priority over hers.