Help with Bandwidth limiting

[Cyberdog]

Hi,

I have a home network connected to a BT ADSL (up to 20MB) phone line. I also have 10 devices connected to the ADSL via a Netgear ProSafe 16 port switch.

The problem is, when my sons go on their Xbox and PS3 I am unable to load a basic web page, never mind do anything else. So what i want is to be able to limit their bandwidth, along with other things.

I was looking at the Linksys WRT54GL, however from what i can see this is only a router, and NOT a modem/router. If i am correct, do Linksys not do a router/modem similar to the WRT54GL which will take third party firmware.

 

[anything I don't mind]

You need to buy that router and stick this firmware on it, http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

This will give you more functionality and you can limit bandwidth based on IP, i think.

Alternatively you can use pfsense, which is what i use.

 

[swbroadband]

If your sons are just gaming, it should be marginal bandwidth use (as far as I'm aware - not a console owner).

It definitely shouldn't make browsing near impossible, unless the line is being completely utilised by the consoles e.g. video streaming, downloading etc.

Even then, you should still be able to browse around at moderate speed.

 

[Banzai_Joe]

If your sons are just gaming, it should be marginal bandwidth use (as far as I'm aware - not a console owner).

It definitely shouldn't make browsing near impossible, unless the line is being completely utilised by the consoles e.g. video streaming, downloading etc.

Even then, you should still be able to browse around at moderate speed.

Agreed.....what's your regular connection speed? Even if it were only 4mbit, the consoles wouldn't hog ALL the bandwidth.

 

[Thiassi]

Hi,

I have a home network connected to a BT ADSL (up to 20MB) phone line. I also have 10 devices connected to the ADSL via a Netgear ProSafe 16 port switch.

The problem is, when my sons go on their Xbox and PS3 I am unable to load a basic web page, never mind do anything else. So what i want is to be able to limit their bandwidth, along with other things.

I was looking at the Linksys WRT54GL, however from what i can see this is only a router, and NOT a modem/router. If i am correct, do Linksys not do a router/modem similar to the WRT54GL which will take third party firmware.

Speedtest me thinks.

Just playing a few games should not be doing this at all.

*Edit - ok, try downloading Ubuntu from here for a better speedtest and see what download speed you are getting with no one else on your network.

 

[Cyberdog]

I downloaded Ubuntu at 1.6MB/sec. I also ran a speed test at Thinkbroadband.com wich showed D/L at 11.2Mbps. However that was after getting "server not found" eight times.

I have also tested my Broadband link with a tested plugged directly into my master socket. That showed the connection as 15.68Mbps.

Am i missing something??