Router for home network

jrwagh333

jrwagh333

jrwagh333

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I currently have the Asus RT-N56U, it is a great router but I just have one problem.

When someone (including myself) uploads something, then the whole internet becomes pretty un-usable for other clients on the network.
All clients are using ethernet and the internet is 100mb down, 5mb up.

I have looked around in the QoS settings for my router to see if there is a way I can limit bandwidth to different clients, but I am unable to find anything.
I also can't see which user is using the bandwidth, as it just gives a graph for overall bandwidth usage.

Maybe I need to buy a new router? What do people suggest.
I would like to keep this one to avoid spending any money at all.
 
What are you uploading? What are you using to upload? Limit the upload speed in the uploading program.
 
Uploading what though?

If you mean they're running torrents and uploading at max speed, then it will hurt any router.
 
I think that is what they are doing. Yes but if my router has the setting (which I can't find) or another router does, where I can cap each client's max upload speeds
 
Problem is that any download needs to send ACKs. If you're swamping your upload, the ACKs have to compete with the uploads, and this slows your download as the other end has to wait for the ACKs. You need to cap your upload to make sure you have enough bandwidth left for ACKs, but 5 mbit is a bit stingy for 100 mbit download.

You need to look for QOS (Quality Of Service) settings in your router and adjust that.
 
Yeah I have had a dig around in the QoS section of my router and it's very basic. You can only set priorities for clients of low, medium, and high.

Going to 120mb/10mb soon. But that will just mean that the other clients will be hammering the upload at a faster speed. So I still need to cap them.
 
Play with QoS

One option here is to configure their uploads on each machine.

Better still, is to have one central machine for downloading that everyone has access to. Can also use this as a shared video store.

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Or get your own internet connection. Doing one or both of the above makes it better for all users.
 
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