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Router advice needed

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nocash

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Looking for a reliable router to share a 3Mbit/256k connection Charter cable. Since the upload is so slow I need one that could limit upload bandwidth, Have 2 PC's in 1 room and 1 in garage and 4th is current fixit PC i happen to be working on most of the time. All are wired so dont need wireless. 10/100 is fine dont need gigabit. Just something reliable and can limit bandwidth. $50 or less would be great but can go a bit higher if needed. Any Ideas? Right now im using a hub and ICS through my PC works great but Id rather not leave my PC on 24/7 and can get real laggy if someone is uploading.
 
Do you really need to throttle the upload? Unless you are doing some major Torrent uploads and things like that, the speed is fine. For standard web browsing and email you don't need much for upload becaus eyou only upload for a second while requesting the next web page. But if you do a lot of uploading, you'll need something that supports QoS I think to do that.

I think you can get the standard Linksys WRT54G and use one of the 3rd party firmware to accomplish that. Or if one progrma uploads torrents and you need to slow it down, just set it in the torrent software that it shouldn't use more than XX kbps.



 
The one in garage is a garage apartment with a teenager. So I assume its torrents or something similar. So if I can limit the uploads on that line to say 10k It should solve some problems.
 
Originally posted by: nocash
The one in garage is a garage apartment with a teenager. So I assume its torrents or something similar. So if I can limit the uploads on that line to say 10k It should solve some problems.
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Ah yes, for that you'd need a router that supports QoS which lets you give priority to certain connections over other certain connections.

I don't know of any consumer router that do that though other than the one I mentioned above that you put new firmware on. But then you could definitely set which ports get the priority. Also you don't have to limit it to just a certain number, you can just rank it. So if the other 3 aren't using any bandwidth, then let the 4th one run free. But as soon as the other 3 start needing it, it bumps #4 down to the bottom of the list.
 
The only Entry Level Routers that can control traffic are the Flashable Linksys 54g variety.

Otherwise, it has to be done locally on each computer, ( www.netlimitter.com ) and pray that the teen does not how to change it.

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