Anyway to cap bandwidth speeds at home?

[abillybob]

Hi Peeps

 

Is there anyway I can limit some devices internet speed? I have a Windows Server at home and an Asus DSL-N55U router so I wa shopping there would be someway?

 

My mum's, partners, children watch Netflix non-stop and use the internet heavily preventing anyone else doing anything on the internet as it takes forever to load our broadband is only about 600-700kbps!

 

If anyone could shed some light I'd be most appreciated! Thank you - Happy Easter!

[ZeroHour]

Not easily but it may be worth turning down their netflix settings for their profile to disable hd.

[SpuffMonkey]

My Draytek router offers capping if you want to spend some dosh

[twin--turbo]

you need something to do limiting like a microtik router, but it really is not easy at all.

 

TT

[SpuffMonkey]

you need something to do limiting like a microtik router, but it really is not easy at all.

 

TT

 

Its pretty easy on the Draytek 2130 I've got - you just set the IP addresses and allow an Rx and Tx rate, you can limit total usage as well if you want

[SchoolsBroadband]

yes use a Draytek they are quite cheap and brilliant to use when it comes to QOS and bandwidth management.

[Geoff]

Also anything running 3rd party firmware. My Netgear WDGN 3700 has been reflashed with OpenWRT. There is a very detailed article on the wiki about the traffic control you have available to you. There are several example configurations to work from so you don't need to start from scratch.

[IrritableTech]

There's some very basic QOS settings in your router according to this manual - http://www.solwise.co.uk/downloads/files/adsl-dsl-n55u_manual.pdf I presume you can lower the streaming priority? Otherwise it's a more advanced router as suggested above, or possibly a more advanced wifi access point, but managing at that level will obviously affect internal and external bandwidth allocated to the device.

[tom_newton]

Some of the billion devices offer basic QoS too, along with mac address reservation for an IP, that should do it - I have a 7800DXL which has these features, but I have not had cause to use them.