Need Help in purchasing home router

[tungtung]

Hi, wanted to ask if anyone can give me recommendation on home routers that can do bandwidth limiting. I don't need a wireless router, just a regular wired one will do fine.

If there isn't any, can anyone recommend any router for that matter that can do this at reasonable cost? I've been looking at those QoS features, but it doesn't seem to be able to do bandwidth limiting on specific IP address on the local network.

My preference would be bandwidth limiting based on the MAC address, however one that is based on IP should be ok as well.

Someone recommend me a DLink (the DGL-4300) but from what I've read on the manual it doesn't seem to be able to do bandwidth limiting as I wanted. It only seem to have limited QoS ability.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[dderolph]

I don't know but I wonder whether software solution such as http://bandwidthcontroller.com/home.html might be better or as good and alleviate the need to find a router that will do it.

 

[tungtung]

Sounds like an interesting solution, but to that end it seems to me that for software based solution, i'd say NetLimiter might be a better solution.
However I would like to go with a router based solution, I just want a solution that can't be bypassed by any other mean other than physically connecting the computer directly to the net.

So yea ... I'd rather get a router that will do it rather than a software solution, or some other solution with Linux and stuff (one person suggested this to me once, but I just don't want another system running and wasting energy).

 

[alaricljs]

Go to openwrt.org and double check the QoS support. Then look at their hardware compatibility list and get one of those routers, then stick OpenWRT on it and you have a Linux solution.

 

[tungtung]

Yea I have considered openWRT in the past, but back then the QoS implementation was in such a state that is just a bit too unreliable. I'm not really prepared to fuss around with the router (which seems to be the case if I go with openWRT), not to mention the mess trying to get hold of a router that will support openWRT.

But I will keep that in mind ... in the meantime if anyone else has any suggestion for something that will work out of the box, I'd greately appreciate that.

 

[alaricljs]

Okey, linky #2: x-wrt.org is the new GUI for OpenWRT, and it should help a little, but I don't think it has much in the QoS department.