Netgear DGN2200V3 Bandwidth Restriction

Dead and Gone · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:58

Hi there,

Does anyone know a way to get a Netgear DGN2200V3 to restrict how much bandwidth a IP or MAC address can consume?

If not can anyone recommend a sub £100 ADSL router that can

Thanks

bremen1874 · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:08

From the Netgear FAQ here.

11. Does DGN2200(B)v3 have Quality of Service Built in?
Quality of Service (QOS) is built in and DGN2200(B)v3 can be configured to prioritize the traffic based on different applications such as VOIP, Video and Gaming. It automatically assigns the right priority to the most popular applications.

12. What types of QoS does DGN2200(B)v3 support?
It supports 4 types of QoS service. This includes QoS settings for applications, on line gaming, MAC address and Ethernet LAN Port. The user can configure QoS based to set Internet traffic priority for the best efficiency for the user's situation.

No idea how well it actually works.

Danny091 · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:10

You should be able to turn QOS (it seems supported from what i googled) and put the mac address of the device in the low priority. You cant limit it as in only 40GB a month or something though. But QOS should prevent that one mac hogging all the bandwidth.

Dead and Gone · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:15

ye QOS really isn't cutting it at the moment as while my wife streams on Netflix any online gaming I do my latency is up and down like a whores drawers. Was looking for a way to limit Netflix to say 400Kbps

Danny091 · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:20

you could do that by installing the software on your wifes computer. Something like netlimiter should work. Although she could just dissable it

Dead and Gone · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:21

She watches it on the big screen so can't install anything on the TV unless there is way

Minstadave · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:23

You need to install backofthehand.exe on your wife.

Dead and Gone · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:28

Minstadave said:
You need to install backofthehand.exe on your wife.

lol

very true but I'd be in the dog house... hay I wonder if the doghouse has good wifi? hmmmm

Dead and Gone · 21 Jul 2014 at 23:04

so can anyone recommend a Router that can limit the amount of b/w based on IP or Mac address?

Rroff · 21 Jul 2014 at 23:15

Another possibility is using a (semi)managed switch like the Netgear ProSafe GS105E (note the E the non-E models are unmanaged) it has QoS including rate limiting though the slowest rate limit options is 512kbit/s.

Never actually tried the QoS features though to see how well they work in reality as QoS is managed further downstream.