As the title says, I live with someone who torrents and downloads shit 24/7. I blocked his laptop from connecting to internet few months back via router settings and the internet speeds are still incredibly shit. It’s so bad I can barely load up a tik tok. I’ve searched everywhere online to figure out how I can stop him or even limit his torrenting but have found nothing. We’ve called him out in the past but he swears up and down that he doesn’t do it despite the evidence I have of him. Do I call our ISP to stop him? What do I do?
Any help is appreciated
Is your internet on some sort of distributed BW system like Cable modem nodes, or provided by an apartment building, etc?
IF so the issue may not be be in your side of the network.
Also are you wireless or wired while testing, some areas get hyper saturated with 802.11 noise, and can negatively affect wireless. Especially when everyone router is “Auto optimizing” id est channel hopping, and the saturation moves in waves and echoes. If you do determine this IS the problem, set a specific channel, it will not fix it, but it will make in in general better more often.
Can take your router out of the picture and retest direct to provider, if speeds are still now what you pay for, contact who you get that service from, and *then* you get to learn why they all read “Up to” in the fine print!