Question How to throttle a PC on a Ethernet network ?

[Flourgrader]

Hi All,
I have 10 PC all on Ethernet CAT6 cable,going through
Netgear unmanaged switches to A TP-Link Archer VR 2800 Router.
All the PCs work very well until my grandson visits and runs Games And P2P software on the PC.
Then he takes all the bandwidth.
I would like to limit his uploads and downloads to a fair share of the network .
I have all ready tried using QoS setting in the router which does not work.
I don't want to make this permanent as in the rest of the week this is used as a normal office PC,unrestricted
I would like to make this very simple,just like flipping a switch.
could somebody please explain how I can do this,in a step by step explanation.
Thank You

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, there's a few solutions. One is to get a separate router, with "bandwidth limiting" (I've used a TP-Link.. I think C5 or C7 or something? I'll have to check), another solution, if you have a gigabit FIOS / Comcast connection, is to simply purchased a 10/100 network switch, and connect that to your router, and then connect his connection to THAT switch, and thus, he will be inherently limited by the physical connection to 100Mbit/sec up and down on your network. Thus, if you have gigabit FIOS, you will still have 900Mbit/sec up and down available to the rest of your LAN.

If you are running certain routers, or Tomato firmware, on certain routers, I believe that you can manually set that port (that he is connected to) connection speed down to 100Mbit/sec, or 10Mbit/sec, if you don't want to purchase more routers. That would also limit him.

 

[razel]

PC, it's wired? Easiest thing to do is use an older Ethernet cable for part of his run. The ones with only 4 wires. That will automatically limit it to 100 instead of gigabit.

However if your Internet is like most people and is asymmetrical (200 down/10 up), then I suspect it's his saturation of your upload that could be killing things. Where you enter the QOS values for download/upload. Subtract 10-15% from your download and reduce your upload by 20%. Yes, that will cap your maximum speed but at least it won't saturate your connection. If you're happy with how it changes, you can fine-tune the values.

 

[ralfy]

I think there are software like Netbalancer and Netlimiter, where you can limit bandwidth across the network, for particular machines, or for particular software.

There are also settings in some games and P2P software where limits can be set for upload and downloads, manually or based on a schedule, etc.

 

[Flourgrader]

Thank you all, I do appreciate your help on this topic.
I shall take a look at the suggestions .
Have a good day all.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I've had success using ubiquiti's unifi product. I run one of their AP's. In the controller software I create a group, limited the speeds to 10/1, and applied the group to my guest wifi ssid. Worked like a charm

 

[Flourgrader]

Thanks for your input ch33zw1z

 

[Flourgrader]

Thanks for your input everyone

 

[QuietDad]

Put a 100mb network adapter in the PC your grandson uses

 

[VirtualLarry]

Put a 100mb network adapter in the PC your grandson uses

USB2.0 one would work. They're under $10.