“The best thing would be to buy some headphones for him and make him use them. I think it is unreasonable for him to ignore you asking to stop playing – most decent people would take into account what you’re saying.”
When you play Halo 3 on XBox live, you wear headphones to communicate with teammates. He doesn’t want to wear another pair at the same time, even if they’re in-ear headphones to fit snugly under his other pair.
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Sounds to me like it perfectly describes logging into your router with a web browser and turning on the throttling feature. Am I missing something?
Huh. You’re right. I thought the router idea meant screwing with hardware, not software. Right now, it looks like my router doesn’t have a throttling option. I have a Linksys BEFSR41 router, v. 3.0, if you’re curious. I’ll look into it. Great idea!
Another great idea is the ping suggestion. I guess I just didn’t realize XBoxes get their own IPs – I was just trying to ping Google servers. 8-D
I think I’m gonna try the ping idea tonight, since I can’t find a throttling option on my router. I’ll keep you guys posted. THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT HELP!
BTW – last night I tried downloading four different Linux torrents, a la paulc and istandl337. Didn’t work perfectly, but he was frustrated by the lag and quit early (3 AM). YAY FOR SIX HOURS OF SLEEP!