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ben12321 · 28 Dec 2014 at 18:15

can sky restrict my speed upon my request, people taking the mickey and i want my connection restricted enough to throttle online gaming etc ?

thanks in advance for any advice

iMacMart · 28 Dec 2014 at 22:14

Don't think so, are you not able to do it via your router?

MissChief · 29 Dec 2014 at 03:33

Tier one probably won't be able to but sure, your speed can be restricted. The only problem is their DLM can only be switched off for 2 weeks at a time, it comes back on automatically after that so even if your speed was capped, two weeks later the speed would likely increase again.

xGBHxPegasus · 29 Dec 2014 at 10:38

ben12321 said:
can sky restrict my speed upon my request, people taking the mickey and i want my connection restricted enough to throttle online gaming etc ?

thanks in advance for any advice

Why do you need to restrict online gaming? Usually doesn't effect bandwidth that much.

ben12321 · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:26

sick to death of kids playing online games and doing nothing else, i also have a sky router not sure what options to look for

Steveocee · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:58

ben12321 said:
sick to death of kids playing online games and doing nothing else, i also have a sky router not sure what options to look for

The wifi password.......

Mattus · 2 Jan 2015 at 01:11

Online games generally use very little bandwidth compared to other activities, so restricting the speed of your connection probably isn't going to stop them.

Either use parental controls or just talk to them about not doing so much online gaming...

Terrier_Jimlad · 2 Jan 2015 at 01:16

You need to un-restrict your parenting skills, not restrict your internet speed

MagicBoy · 2 Jan 2015 at 01:29

There's a block sites option under Security in the router config page. That should stop them...

MissChief · 2 Jan 2015 at 02:20

MagicBoy said:
There's a block sites option under Security in the router config page. That should stop them...

But make sure to change the Admin password so they can't just connect and turn it off.

FatRakoon · 2 Jan 2015 at 04:17

Im on Post Office and I have an ASUS Router and I can honestly say that when my eldest son is playing on his XBOX, the internet dies a slow and painful death.

Im on a very solid 9.8Meg connection and the internet is absolutely flawless until he starts the XBOX up, and then trying to watch Youtube or catchup on ITV or BBC Player etc, ends up with the bloody circle thingy coming up every few seconds and TV is completely unwatchable.
( What makes this even more irritating is that I have setup a Media Centre PC that uses the bloody arial and so does not require the internet and yet the family still insist on using the bloody ITV Player all the time???? )

Terrier_Jimlad · 2 Jan 2015 at 08:24

If you have the Asus, why not setup QoS properly then so his gaming traffic takes least priority? 9MB is more than enough to stream TV and game (as long as he's just gaming and not download a huge DLC or something as part of the game)

xGBHxPegasus · 2 Jan 2015 at 09:01

I would've thought the TV streaming would disrupt his gaming more than the other way round.

MagicBoy · 2 Jan 2015 at 09:32

xGBHxPegasus said:
I would've thought the TV streaming would disrupt his gaming more than the other way round.

This. As someone who used to play a lot of Forza .... Xbox is likely getting QoS preference. If it wasn't then multiplayer would start lagging very badly as soon as someone else on the same connection starts using YouTube/Netflix and using the majority of the bandwidth.