I have just been appointed the NetAdmin for an college dorm with this basic setup:
Nine apartments with up to 6 computers (LAN), each connected to a router which is in turn connected to a central router (WAN). Which is in turn connected to the Firewall/DHCP/etc Server that I have just set up that finally kicks it to the internet.
I have had no network experience, I was appointed just b/c I was tech-savvy and moved into the
“right dorm”.
But any way the situation:
I have 1 tenant who has a download program that hogs all of the bandwidth (it makes all the other 53 really mad), but I cannot throttle his bandwidth b/c the only IP address I see is the address of his apartments router.
I wanted to get the whole network on 1 network with subnets. But the routers (at least the one in his apartment -which is a Belkin) wants to be a part of a different network. For example, the WAN router is 192.168.1.0/28 while apt. router wants its LAN to be 192.168.2.0 instead of 192.168.1.32/28 or something.
How can I achieve my goal? Either by subnetting or by some other way?