Bandwidth Hogging

Square Box AV · 7 Feb 2021 at 15:44

Hi. I've got an issue with my home internet connection. I have ethernet connections running from 4 ports on the router to different rooms in the house and all being used for pc's/consoles etc.

Everything works fine without any issues under normal usage however, as soon as my son starts to download a game onto his console or pc, the port he is using automatically hogs all of the bandwidth and no one else in the house can use the internet.

This is the only port/room that does this and it happens whether he's downloading on his console or pc.

My router does not have any QoS service on it. Can anyone advise why this might be happening and suggest if there is a work around without the need to buy a router with QoS?

Thank you.

Square Box AV · 7 Feb 2021 at 19:46

Sorry everyone for late reply and thank you all for responding. I am on EE fibre, getting 80mbps to the router and regularly test it and haven't had any problems with drops in the mbps. I'm using their smarthub which doesn't have QoS.

So going by the responses then I'm looking at a new router with QoS? There is no way of throttling the console, not sure about the pc. It's just strange that it's only that port on the router that allows the hogging. I've looked at the settings for each port and can't see any difference in each if them.

Can anyone recommend a decent router with QoS? Nothing too extravagant as it's only for home use. Cheers.

Square Box AV · 8 Feb 2021 at 09:47

Thank you everyone for the replies, you've all been really helpful. You've all given me a few options and I'll look into them all to try and see which will be best for us to get this resolved

Square Box AV · 8 Feb 2021 at 11:01

To be honest he isn't too bad and if I asked him to do the downloads or updates over night he would do that. But I don't want to go down that route if it's at all avoidable. Kids at the minute have little enough interaction with their friends during lockdown and I don't want to restrict that further.

I've just noticed that the port he is connected to is the WAN port of the router, would this by why he getting priority over the other LAN ports? That may be a stupid question but thought I would throw it out to you guys who know a lot more than me.