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Router Q: Bandwidth thottling

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Shades:
I use an old Pentium II PC (with Linux) as a router/DNS/Gateway/DHCP/Proxy/Squid/Firewall. Throttling is relatively easy to do when you can have a dedicated PC to do this kind of "heavy lifting".

Actually I have two incoming connections and diverting which user uses which connection is also relatively easy to do as well. And with Squid I have a clear picture of what everybody in the household is doing on the net as well.

By using a dedicated PC, one can use whatever (external) modem that is available at any time (a dealbreaker in my case).

Cloq:
I would just buy something compatible with DDWRT (list here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices#Supported_Devices ) and use the throttling feautures built-in to the software.
- Oshyan
-JavaJones (August 01, 2010, 05:04 PM)
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I was looking at DDWRT software/firmware but didn't come across anything concrete about bandwidth throttling.

4wd:
Quite a lot of the Zyxel modem and router range support Media Bandwidth Management - they can throttle the bandwidth used depending on the traffic/IP/port/etc applicable to WAN/LAN/WLAN independently on a Priority or Fairness based model.

I use it to give priority to WLAN traffic and also throttle my downloader pc when there's HTML/email/etc traffic happening.

Otherwise, there is also cFosSpeed which I've used for years.  You can install it on all PCs and it will co-operatively prioritise the bandwidth among them giving P2P and other bulk protocols a lower priority.  It can also do online budgets based on time or volume, traffic analysis, usage graph and prioritise to favour ping time or bandwidth.

Personally, I think it's a great program and it certainly works for my network setup but you can try it for free for 30 days to see if it's suitable for your circumstances.

NOTE: I'm only a happy user of cFosSpeed, not in any way associated with the company.  I got my license for free, (by providing traffic data for my hardware/ISP), but I also bought another license.

JavaJones:
DD-WRT should do everything you need:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service

- Oshyan

Cloq:
DD-WRT should do everything you need:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service

- Oshyan
-JavaJones (August 07, 2010, 04:44 PM)
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Interesting.. will have to take a look at using tc command. thanks!

@4wd - Zyxel is a bit out of my budget.. though I have had a zyxel router before and it's interface (gui) reminds me of Netgear.

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