QOS throttling etc... revisited a different take...

LeperousDust

LeperousDust

LeperousDust

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Right, so i'm still having troubles with sharing in my shared flat, aren't we all I guess. We've tried the sensible talking thing, and it does work, but it never lasts...

I am seriously willing to buy extra hardware now to just sort this out essentially.

So what do I really need? Willing to buy a decent router for starters, and i was thinking of using a minimum of two routers, and give the main offenders the wireless access they already know via the original router, and then provide an extra access point with a new one.

So is it possible to plug the old router into a new better one and sort out some kind of hard limit on bandwidth. Literally, i don't care how much they use, i just want headroom for ourselves. So basically they get a solid XXMb but NO more... Surely I must be able to do this some way by physically separating the lines/routers?

Part of my arsenal is also a download box/media streamer/ kinda do all server. Big cravat is it's running 'doze and this cannot be changed. But if there is a way to balance from this i'm happy to do this also, as in two interfaces plugged into two wireless routers serving them both up?

I'm honestly getting pretty tired of this, and it's worth a bit of emotional/physical/financial investment now! It's just VERY VERY hard knowing hat to search for and searching the wheat from the chaff on Google. There is a LOT of **** returned, a LOT of miss information spread on forums, and just general rubbish. This background noise seems to interrupt my google-fu, that or it's not possible. Which I really truly ****ing hope not!
 
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It’s definitely possible.

My router (Vigor 2920) for example allows me to set hard limits on the upload/download speeds based on the user’s LAN IP address. I believe that the Billion 7800N has similar (probably better) bandwidth control features.
 
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Well i've used Tomato and DD-WRT in the past, and although they allow QoS it's not quite what i want, because bandwidth is still being saturated, and although certain things more "critical" might have more priority in theory. When really stretched it still plays havok. Hence why i wanted a separate hard limit, no actual QoS so to speak. Just: "You have this much to use, do what you wish"!

I did look at the Billion 7800N and it appealed to me because so many people speak so highly of it, and it would do switching between ADSL and Cable as well. But i couldn't get concrete answers on whether is allows limiting or not. QoS pack prioritisation is featured, but as i said, its not really a decent answer...

KIA i'm currently on Sky ADSL, but have also been on Cable too, i did have a original WRT54G and it helped a little whilst running Tomato, but it still wasn't quite right...
 
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I'll have a play later and try and limit my netbook's usage

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Thanks ever so much bledd. I have no qualms in buying the router, I mean it looks like an amazing piece of hardware anyway. But it's hard to find conclusive reviews or reports of *what* it can actually do, anywhere online, other than the fact its ****** good! :)

Kicking myself for not buying it at the bargain price of £90 a few months back!

//Edit: Again after reading round, it's fairly simple to control uploads at router level, its the downloads that cause headaches, and general over-abundance of connections that p2p programs generate.

//Edit: Seems i'm honing in here. http://www.gargoyle-router.com/ looks interesting, i could buy a supported router and play around with that. It's on a similar theme to DD-WRT and tomato except i've never used it...
 
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