one computer slowing my network?

[grymgroeth]

ok, i know utorrent starts on start up

This would be something your brother is doing to slow your network down. Go ahead and disable the autostart options for this one whether you do anything I recommended earlier or not.

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This would be something your brother is doing to slow your network down. Go ahead and disable the autostart options for this one whether you do anything I recommended earlier or not.

thinkg is, i cant do too much to his pc while hes not here, he wont be happy, because his internet doesnt slow down :|

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thinkg is, i cant do too much to his pc while hes not here, he wont be happy, because his internet doesnt slow down :|

just turn off utorrent if it's active, and see what happens to your latency issue. you will have identified the issue if it's normal and his computer is on at the same time then.

[grymgroeth]

all in all the first step to rule out the possibility of it being software on his computer causing this problem would be to do a full format of his computer.

So your first step in addressing an easily solved problem is hours (or days) of reinstalling and patching after a full format of the system? Seriously? No attempt at trouble shooting and malware removal at all?

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thinkg is, i cant do too much to his pc while hes not here, he wont be happy, because his internet doesnt slow down :|

Of course his system doesnt slow down, it's hogging all the bandwidth. For the sake of curiosity, is his cabled and yours wireless?

[Musta Kyy]

thinkg is, i cant do too much to his pc while hes not here, he wont be happy, because his internet doesnt slow down :|

Just open utorrent, go to Options --> Preferences --> General --> uncheck 'Start utorrent on startup', and then shut it down, btw it is quite careless having utorrent on auto startup and seeding some random torrents, depending which country you live, you might easily get a letter from your ISP that they will shut down your internet for good if you continue it.

Btw, I got even better idea, If you know your max download and upload speeds, you could change the settings in the bandwidth tab in utorrent preferences so that he can never steal the whole bandwidth.
For example if you got 10M download / 1M upload broadband, you could change the settings to something like 'Maximum upload rate 75' and Maximum download rate 900'