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Limit wireless bandwidth

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plasmicmike

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Hi,

I'd like to limit the amount of bandwidth available on my wireless (I pay and I connect physically 😉


The QoS I've seen doesn't work, I don't want to throttle certain types of packets - I just want to say either the entiree wireless network has 1-2mb or that user X has 1-2mb.

I've seen posting that this might be able on the Linksys wrt54g - I was hoping to find it in a DSL router so I didn't have to chain them.

Any suggestions on DSL routers with bandwidth throttling that's not per-packet?

Thanks,
Mike
 
You can limit the bandwidth for the wireless capabilities (really depends on the router and its standard configuration), but I think most are limited to 1-2Mb/s as the minimum (though you could flash the router with DD-WRT or Tomato). Unfortunately you will be hard pressed to find a wireless capable DSL modem. You'll have to change them in series (DSL line in -> DSL modem -> router -> computer).

The plus side is if the wireless router craps out, you don't have to buy another DSL modem if you suddenly lose Internet connection.
 
Welcome to the forums.

The downright easy way not allow the other higher data rates of wireless. Only allow 1 and 2.5 Mbs and disallow all the others. This will force any client to only use those datarates.
 
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