How do I limit bandwidth usage with a wireless router?

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How do I limit bandwidth usage with a wireless router?

Answer 1

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How do I limit bandwidth usage with a wireless router?

I have a WRT54G Linksys wireless router with Mediacom cable internet. There are two computers using the internet and we both access it wirelessly. My room mate CONSTANTLY streams movies from foreign sites--completely hogging all the bandwidth. Every web site has to start out with "Looking...

Answer 2

Bandwidth Control Settings Help



In this page you can disable or enable the Bandwidth Control feature. The Bandwidth Control Rules will work properly only when the Bandwidth Control feature is enabled.



Enable Bandwidth Control - If enabled, the Bandwidth Control rules will take effect.

Egress Bandwidth - The upload speed through the WAN port.

Ingress Bandwidth - The download speed through the WAN port.

Answer 3

there should be a qos setting inside your router, buts its limited to what it can do.

It has as setting that can set traffic to high and low priorities.

I've heard good things about dd-wrt but im not sure if its qos is any better.

Answer 4

There is no solution you can implement, and QoS will not do what you want. QoS allows you to allocate network resources you control. But the limiting factor here is the link *from* your ISP *to* you.



You have no control over what packets your ISP puts on the link to you. By the time you receive a packet, the earliest you could do anything about it, it's already too late, since the bandwidth has already been consumed.



What software does your roommate use? There are plug ins for IE and Firefox that limit bandwidth usage. Some downloaders (such as most torrent clients) have built-in limiters that can be set. You will have to work out a fair arrangement with them.



Adrian: The incoming packets over the link to the ISP don't have the LAN destination's mac address on them. The ISP has no idea what the LAN destination is, and the router assigns them one *after* it receives it, which is too late. The packet will have consumed the bandwidth before the QoS logic even looks at it. At that point, what can it do?

Answer 5

QoS has to be in the router in order to control network bandwidth. Many routers have it, some don't - depends on the make and model. Linksys WRT54G should have something in it.... Look under Applications/gaming, and there is a small tab menu just below the main, called QoS. My WRT54G has a very limited QoS, but I would look at the MAC "Device Priority" part of it....

There, you specify the MAC address of the device in question (ie your laptop), and give yourself high priority.