So, you live in a flat with 3 other people and in a typical weekend internet navigation as much voip is pretty much useless. You do some tracking and finds out all flavours of downloads; torrents, emule, https and etc.
My flatmates are all willing to set up limits and routes on their clients, but telling geeks to respect that when they are locked in their rooms is like asking people to respect QoS over the internet...
We don't have exactly a "router box" (I mean, apart from the ISP router/wifi hub itself) set at home to take care of that, and I'd prefer not to have one, to avoid actual investment. Nevertheless, I'd like to make internet usage minimally fair for those who just want to facebook now and then...
My question is, what are the simplest solutions you guys have found for the situation above? Is there anyway I could get "user immune" without involving configuring a linux box to create shares and quotas?