Need a wired/wireless router that will limit bandwidth to users

[TheLizardMan]

I am sharing my internet access with a family member. They usually own the whole connection making my access slow. The pipe is large enough to split it in half. So is there any router that will limit a mac address, computer name or ip to a fixed bandwidth limit? If so could you please let me know what is out there?

Thanks!

 

[JackMDS]

Sure there is if you can afford $1000?

Otherwise: Can I Monitor my LAN, control the usage of the Internet, and Network Resources by other computers from my main computer?

:sun:

 

[roofles]

well, i don't think there is a cheap solution to what you want, but what you can do is get a linksys router that is in the WRT54g family and obtain the sveasoft custom firmware for it. I don't think it will let you split the bandwidth but it will let you prioritize your traffic over his so as long as you dont hog the connection he should be OK. Also I think there is a program called NetLimiter (for Windows, not sure about Mac) that will let you limit the bandwidth of traffic going in/out of a PC. So I guess you could install it on your PC set the limit to be half the bandwidth available to you, and then give yourself priority using the Linksys router. It's kind of a clumsy method but it's all I can think of if you want to build it on the cheap.

 

[roofles]

hmm now that i look at the forums it appears that sveasoft firmware will let you allocate bandwidth as well as do QoS. I'm not a big fan of flashing fancy customer firmware to my stuff when I don't need it, but it's definitely something you could look into.

 

[Raj]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Sure there is if you can afford $1000?

Otherwise: Can I Monitor my LAN, control the usage of the Internet, and Network Resources by other computers from my main computer?

:sun:

WOW, Very resourceful article.

Thanks,

Raj

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: roofles
hmm now that i look at the forums it appears that sveasoft firmware will let you allocate bandwidth as well as do QoS. I'm not a big fan of flashing fancy customer firmware to my stuff when I don't need it, but it's definitely something you could look into.

allocate bandwidth? and this is something other than QoS? what is this?

 

[roofles]

well from the site when they list features they seem to list 'bandwidth allocation' separately as opposed to 'QoS' so I assume they mean other than prioritizing bandwidth it will also allow you to do what TheLizardMan wants, which is to limit bandwidth based on MAC/IP/Port.

Or a combination of QoS/Netlimiter will also let you do that.