Bandwidth limiting through router?

[sisq0kidd]

Is there any way to limit bandwidth to each computer through my Linksys router? I have several computers on my network and hate it when one computer hijacks all the bandwidth.

Thanks in advance.

 

[KoolAidKid]

Yes, I believe that QoS will accomplish this, although I only have experience using it to regulate my upload bandwidth. If you have a pre-v5 Linksys WRT54G you can flash the firmware to obtain QoS capability.

 

[sisq0kidd]

Thank you very much, I will try it out.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: KoolAidKid
Yes, I believe that QoS will accomplish this, although I only have experience using it to regulate my upload bandwidth. If you have a pre-v5 Linksys WRT54G you can flash the firmware to obtain QoS capability.

QoS will not 100% accomplish what the OP was asking. It will only reserves bandwidth for certain traffic, and not actually limiting bandwidth to a particular machine. However, if you know what the type of traffic is hijacking all the bandwidth, you could actually set the QoS on those type of traffic to a real low priority.

 

[KoolAidKid]

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: KoolAidKid
Yes, I believe that QoS will accomplish this, although I only have experience using it to regulate my upload bandwidth. If you have a pre-v5 Linksys WRT54G you can flash the firmware to obtain QoS capability.

QoS will not 100% accomplish what the OP was asking. It will only reserves bandwidth for certain traffic, and not actually limiting bandwidth to a particular machine. However, if you know what the type of traffic is hijacking all the bandwidth, you could actually set the QoS on those type of traffic to a real low priority.

Using my WRT54G flashed with the DD-WRT firmware I can give a computer bandwidth priority based upon its IP address, the ethernet port it is plugged in to, or a couple of other criteria.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: KoolAidKid

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: KoolAidKid
Yes, I believe that QoS will accomplish this, although I only have experience using it to regulate my upload bandwidth. If you have a pre-v5 Linksys WRT54G you can flash the firmware to obtain QoS capability.

QoS will not 100% accomplish what the OP was asking. It will only reserves bandwidth for certain traffic, and not actually limiting bandwidth to a particular machine. However, if you know what the type of traffic is hijacking all the bandwidth, you could actually set the QoS on those type of traffic to a real low priority.

Using my WRT54G flashed with the DD-WRT firmware I can give a computer bandwidth priority based upon its IP address, the ethernet port it is plugged in to, or a couple of other criteria.

Yes, I know you could do that. That's setting priority on traffic (QoS), but if you want to limit bandwidth it's called traffic shaping. Two different concepts. QoS reserves bandwidth for higher priority traffic, but does not limit bandwidth to a machine.