Router with Bandwidth Limiting

Dynix

Dynix

Dynix

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Hi,

Is there any [not too expensive] cable routers around that offer per-device (either by port or MAC address) bandwidth limiting?

I'm after something that can physically limit the upload/download bandwidth and not something with basic QoS traffic priortising (as my WNR2000 already has).

Need it to be cable (i.e. compatible with Virgin Media) and Wireless N if possible! :)

Regards
 
I have a cheap as chips (think I paid somewhere in the region of £30?) Tenda W306R just for a wireless access point as there was some blackspots around the house.

Anyway it has this function (a bit of chinglish but I'm sure you can make it out just fine):

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Had it for a few months and never had an issue with it really :P
 
get a second hand low power PC (often virtually free second hand, an original Pentium or K6-2 is plenty fast enough) put a second NIC in (< £3) and put IPCOP on it with the QOS-NG addon. It's a free linux distro and will let you do advanced bandwidth limiting as well as an awesome transparent web proxy and other cool things. You can set per device limits, but you can also do Layer7 prioritising by application type.
 
54gl will only work on the 20meg, at 250mhz those routers can only handle 30meg connections. Op didn't mention his speed :(
 
Azuse05 said:
54gl will only work on the 20meg, at 250mhz those routers can only handle 30meg connections. Op didn't mention his speed :(
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I've seen that said a lot on here, but my WRT54GL handles 50 megs more or less perfectly with Tomato installed. It falls over when flashed with DD-WRT (30Mbps to 35Mbps tops), but with Tomato or Victek's mod it runs OK. Granted the top speed from usenet wavers slightly (5.7 to 6.01 MB/s) but not bad really. I ran it for a few days like that until I got bored of G WLAN/LAN transfers and moved back to the DIR-615.
 
Sorry, I did forget to mention that this would be with VM 50MB.

I bought the Tenda W306R which worked fine until the firmware was upgraded and now it's completely dead. The factory reset button does absolutly nothing so it's a dead brick. Emailed their support but heard nothing so that's going back.

Any others that I can consider? Either bandwidth limiting out the box or through a firmware flash/upgrade that'll handle 50MB/Wireless N fine?

Wouldn't mind trying out WRT54GL with the Tomato flash but it's only Wireless G, but if there are no others then I'll go for that.
 
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