Do Rate Limiting SOHO routers exist?

[CoolTech]

Do Rate Limiting SOHO routers exist?

and no, im not talking about a linux box. Im talking something that you can plug and play and buy from a store, not something that takes all kinds of time to configure.

 

[pulse8]

There a lot of hostility in your post.

Anyway, I imagine if there was one, it'd be pretty expensive.

 

[fs5]

I thought there was only "kind" of time.

 

[HappyPuppy]

At my age I would REALLY like to know how to limit time.😀

 

[huesmann]

Why not just use Net Limiter?

 

[CoolTech]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
At my age I would REALLY like to know how to limit time.😀

hah

 

[Goosemaster]

You are talking about traffic shaping/limiting. No cheap "soho" router will do that. linux will.



for windows go here

Version tracker and look for a program called, coincidentally, "bandwidth limiter"

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
You are talking about traffic shaping/limiting. No cheap "soho" router will do that. linux will.

The funny thing is that half of these access points run linux/BSD, and they theoretically COULD support traffic shaping/limiting easily... Traffic shaping a broadband (<10mbit/sec) connection doesn't take a whole lot of CPU power. None of them do, though, because doing so would cannibalize sales of 'real' routers (for mucho $$$) that support traffic shaping/limiting by default.

 

[ZaneNBK]

Originally posted by: huesmann
Why not just use Net Limiter?

I tried Netlimiter and had to uninstall it. It was causing one of my programs to constantly loose connection to a server. It also appeared to be limiting bandwidth to hosts on my local network, not just internet trafic (if I set a global limit). Other than those two problems I liked it, but those problems were deal killers.

I would also like to see an all-in-one router/firewall that supports traffic shaping. At the very least they should allow you to limit your uplink on async connections so that you're not throttling yourself and killing your downlink. This problem has existed since the dawn of Async connections and throttling is well known to be a good work-around.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
You are talking about traffic shaping/limiting. No cheap "soho" router will do that. linux will.

The funny thing is that half of these access points run linux/BSD, and they theoretically COULD support traffic shaping/limiting easily... Traffic shaping a broadband (<10mbit/sec) connection doesn't take a whole lot of CPU power. None of them do, though, because doing so would cannibalize sales of 'real' routers (for mucho $$$) that support traffic shaping/limiting by default.

I agree with you.

Whomever hacked one of these badboyz would be my hero..and Cisco's worst nightmare