Limiting/Capping Bandwidth On Network?

lettuce · 30 Mar 2008 at 21:29

Im using a Linksys WRT54GL router (Tomato Firmware) for my home network, which has connected to it

WIRED
The main PC
Xbox 360
Sister PC downstairs
Brothers xbox 1 downstairs

WIRELESS
PS3
Wii

With so many connections on the network is there a program i can use that would let me limit/cap the bandwidth each one of these devices use's, via there IP address maybe?. Im using Vista 64 by the way

crazyDAJT · 30 Mar 2008 at 22:27

I dont know about tomato, but you might want to investigate traffic shaping, you may have to build your own rooter to do this.

its a method of prioritising some traffic over others, so when you on bittorrent you can still game and its all ok.

EDIT: Quick Goggle shows there is support for traffic shaping, but i will let somebody who knows about this firmware confirm that

lettuce · 30 Mar 2008 at 23:17

Ah ok, thanks for the input, can anyone chime in here and explain how this works with the tomato firmware?

crazyDAJT · 30 Mar 2008 at 23:24

lettuce said:
Ah ok, thanks for the input, can anyone chime in here and explain how this works with the tomato firmware?

I think they call it QOS, quality of service

Lumeycom · 30 Mar 2008 at 23:33

Seems you can prioritse traffic on that firmware yep

lettuce · 31 Mar 2008 at 17:06

Oh yeah so it does. Next question any faqs to setting this up at all?

crazyDAJT · 31 Mar 2008 at 17:38

I think tomato has a good wiki

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware

EDIT: I don't use Tomato, that was just the first hit on Google, if anybody else has anything better please correct me

lettuce · 31 Mar 2008 at 21:32

Yeah found that, still confuses the hell out of me. I found a program called, WRT54 Script Generator by a guy called Robert "Robson" Mytkowski. Which seems to be very straight forward, that said i havent managed to get it to limited the connection to the PC downstairs yet!