As title says. Currently, if someone in my Network uploads something, or downloads from some servers which manage to saturate my connection Download Bandwidth, lag is extremely notorious in online games, so I'm looking to fix that.
Based on my previous experience with uTorrent, if you can cap the offending computer at 80% of the connection upload/download speed, it is usually enough to make the connection usage not even noticeable to other computers instead of the lagfest that it becomes when someone uses 100%. However, while uTorrent had a built-in Download/Upload speed limiter, you have Web Browsers like Chrome and Firefox which do not, so if someone decides to upload a Youtube video, it hurts everyone else and even if they are aware, they have no way to limit it, just cancel the upload.
Some googling produced the following results:
Once in a time, a Firefox Plugin called Firefox Throttle existed for this exact purpose. The Plugin was discontinued. A Plugin to provide the speed limiters would be great, but I blame developers for being shortsighted since this should be part of any modern Web Browser, unless they actually think that people only uses one computer per connection.
There is an application called NetLimiter which can set individual Upload/Download settings per applications, but it is a 30 day trial. This one seems to be functionally the best. Again, wouldn't this would be useful as part of the OS itself instead of requiring a third party, commercial application? Would prefer an Open Source equivalent.
Finally, trying the QoS controls of my Router, but I never messed with that. This one seems to be the best since its external, but I don't know if the Router can limit Bandwidth per machine the way I'm intending to. Should check if the Firmware has options for that, which I didn't since the Router is provided by the ISP with their custom Firmware.
Any suggestions?
Based on my previous experience with uTorrent, if you can cap the offending computer at 80% of the connection upload/download speed, it is usually enough to make the connection usage not even noticeable to other computers instead of the lagfest that it becomes when someone uses 100%. However, while uTorrent had a built-in Download/Upload speed limiter, you have Web Browsers like Chrome and Firefox which do not, so if someone decides to upload a Youtube video, it hurts everyone else and even if they are aware, they have no way to limit it, just cancel the upload.
Some googling produced the following results:
Once in a time, a Firefox Plugin called Firefox Throttle existed for this exact purpose. The Plugin was discontinued. A Plugin to provide the speed limiters would be great, but I blame developers for being shortsighted since this should be part of any modern Web Browser, unless they actually think that people only uses one computer per connection.
There is an application called NetLimiter which can set individual Upload/Download settings per applications, but it is a 30 day trial. This one seems to be functionally the best. Again, wouldn't this would be useful as part of the OS itself instead of requiring a third party, commercial application? Would prefer an Open Source equivalent.
Finally, trying the QoS controls of my Router, but I never messed with that. This one seems to be the best since its external, but I don't know if the Router can limit Bandwidth per machine the way I'm intending to. Should check if the Firmware has options for that, which I didn't since the Router is provided by the ISP with their custom Firmware.
Any suggestions?
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