Throttling / Limiting Bandwith

by tom.randle Sep 5, 2005 2:42AM PDT

We have an 8MBs Broadband connection setup through a NETGEAR DG834G wireless router. Four of us share the connection, and two of my flatmates (..we're students!) hog the bandwith. Is there anything I can to limit their bandwith consumption so us other 2 get decent download speeds!?

Much Obliged

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Odd.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 5, 2005 3:45AM PDT

The router will share the connection equally, but most complain about response times. In more detail, if all 4 download, each do get 1/4 the bandwidth but as you may notice the response times plummet even with 2 downloaders.

I'm guessing your complaint is about response times and not bandwidth sharing.

Bob

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Response Times

by tom.randle Sep 15, 2005 1:22AM PDT

Response times could well be the problem.. anything I can do

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What I found helps is to ...

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 15, 2005 1:37AM PDT

Install a small Linux box with a DNS (server). This way the time to lookup the addresses can be reduced. Again, I usually don't see IP shaping to help with response times as the router already shares the bandwidth pretty well.

Bob

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Some routers can be set to limit....

by Michael Geist Sep 5, 2005 3:45AM PDT

bandwidth to certain IP's. You will have to check if your router has this feature.

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Router

by tom.randle Sep 15, 2005 1:24AM PDT

My router doesn't appear to have that feature

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