Using a Linux box at home for a router. *Bandwidth management*

[byteme]

Hello, I have a situation of room mate bandwidth gluttony. Between the 3 of us we have a monthly bandwidth cap. I am fresh to the Linux scene so I thought this would be a great project and since I'm using Fedora at work I'd like to do it with Fedora.

I'd like to create a router out of Fedora and for cheap.
I need to cap my room mates bandwidth every month.
It must support wifi connections.

I've researched (*cough* Googled) hacked routers using open source firmware but each firmware has big draw backs in my situation. They don't allow traffic to move faster than a few Mbps (problem for gaming and downloading) and bandwidth capping for certain IPs on the network is unavailable. I use a Buffelo WHR-HP-G54.

I'm guessing I'm going to need to get a wifi receiver for the box. Could a WiFi Card work?
What software can use to manage this situation?

Thank you.

[PatMcLJr]

I haven't done this and don't know how.
Try digging around in yumex for some software, I think you can use shorewall to do this or edit iptables

I don't think you will want a router since your fedora box will be the router

might be easier to see if you can upgrade your ip plan for higher bandwidth?

Pat Jr.

[beaker_]

Have you tried google and why limit yourself to just fedora. The oldest Pentium class machine should do the trick... a P4 will likely do your whole dorm.

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide

Shorewall might be another route. Just hang an AP off your switch. It doesn't need to preform NAT as your linux/freeBSD machine manages your public connection.