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    Dividing up bandwidth

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by turqoisegirl08, Jul 10, 2010.

  1. turqoisegirl08

    turqoisegirl08 Notebook Evangelist

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    I was hoping if someone could tell me if this is possible. I have a Siemens Gigaset SE567 router and my internet speed is about 160kb/sec actual download speed.

    It's slow but what was even slower was the dial-up that we had two years ago! That got about 2.6kb/sec actual download speed :eek:

    The signal at this point is divided up between three (sometimes four) computers in the house. I'd like to limit the bandwidth according to each computers MAC address to about 40kb/sec max.

    Is this possible???
     
    turqoisegirl08, Jul 10, 2010
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  2. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    With certain routers, it is possible to restrict bandwidth. I don't see that in the manual about your router unfortunately.
     
    goofball, Jul 10, 2010
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    Dragauss Notebook Geek

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    You should probably get a dedicated router and enable some sort of Quality-of-Service (QOS) but this only prioritizes packets. You can do this per MAC address.

    Another idea is to use NetLimiter but you would have to do it per each computer.
     
    Dragauss, Jul 12, 2010
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  4. turqoisegirl08

    turqoisegirl08 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks guys. I have not done any foray into this yet. I've been busy the over the weekend and today. Main reason I want to get this set up is people are constantly streaming videos and downloading this and that so it interferes with my researches for school. This seems to be the only solution so everyone gets around the same speed.
     
    turqoisegirl08, Jul 12, 2010
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    Get a Linksys WRT54XX and purchase a paid version of DD-WRT. There's a whole section of options for limiting bandwith and it's quite simple.
     
    ronnieb, Jul 12, 2010
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    Be a little selfish. :p Find a cheap router (Linksys I prefer), wireless if you need it and turn on QOS, and set your MAC address to high priority.
     
    Dragauss, Jul 12, 2010
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  7. turqoisegirl08

    turqoisegirl08 Notebook Evangelist

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    :D

    I like that idea!

    Bwa ha ha ha!
     
    turqoisegirl08, Jul 12, 2010
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