Suitable BT infinity routers which can throttle bandwidth via certain lan ports

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Given my current house situation, I'll be getting BT infinity at my property but one tenant is not playing ball very well with the rest of the occupants.

So are there capable routers which have the ability to throttle bandwidth on a lan port or mac address or anything like that?
 
I bought a Draytek 2860n for this exact reason. At the time we had a 14mbps connection and with 5 people in the house, two watching Netflix, three gaming it was getting a little difficult for me to play online without some serious lag.

With the draytek you can assign Static IPs by mac address and then setup bandwidth profiles. I ended up setting myself a static ip of 192.168.1.10 and then starting the DHCP pool at 192.168.1.20.

Then I created a bandwidth profile for 10mbps that was to be shared on every ip from 192.168.1.20. Leaving me with at least 4mpbs to play with no matter what anyone else was doing. So far it seems to work very well.

You can also configure QoS type priorities to different type of traffic based on ports I think it is. While a little on the expensive side, I am very happy with it.
 
I'm on BT infinity with a Fritzbox 7490 and I can disable specific LAN ports:


Can the Fritzbox restrict mac address or ports to a specific speed?

I bought a Draytek 2860n for this exact reason. At the time we had a 14mbps connection and with 5 people in the house, two watching Netflix, three gaming it was getting a little difficult for me to play online without some serious lag.

With the draytek you can assign Static IPs by mac address and then setup bandwidth profiles. I ended up setting myself a static ip of 192.168.1.10 and then starting the DHCP pool at 192.168.1.20.

Then I created a bandwidth profile for 10mbps that was to be shared on every ip from 192.168.1.20. Leaving me with at least 4mpbs to play with no matter what anyone else was doing. So far it seems to work very well.

You can also configure QoS type priorities to different type of traffic based on ports I think it is. While a little on the expensive side, I am very happy with it.

Thanks for the info, it sound like what I need but as above, can i restrict a mac address to an exact speed and bandwidith?
 
Dunno if its the same with the HH5 but the Infinity modems have an upload QoS policy by default that prevents any one application hogging more than 90% of the upload which helps a lot with keeping things smooth with reasonable line speeds.

Another option is a managed switch (aslong as people aren't using wifi).

End of the day while QoS and port throttling can help with sharing things like netflix and youtube if someone is leaving their torrents going 24x7 you'll need fairly high end hardware to mitigate the effects of that :S
 
I'm sure I posted in this.

I picked up an ASUS N66U recently to do exactly this and it does a good job.

I'm on a 12Mbps/1.5Mbps connection which was painful if somebody starts uploading pictures/videos or multiple users on youtube etc.
 
I bought a Draytek 2860n for this exact reason. At the time we had a 14mbps connection and with 5 people in the house, two watching Netflix, three gaming it was getting a little difficult for me to play online without some serious lag.

With the draytek you can assign Static IPs by mac address and then setup bandwidth profiles. I ended up setting myself a static ip of 192.168.1.10 and then starting the DHCP pool at 192.168.1.20.

Then I created a bandwidth profile for 10mbps that was to be shared on every ip from 192.168.1.20. Leaving me with at least 4mpbs to play with no matter what anyone else was doing. So far it seems to work very well.

You can also configure QoS type priorities to different type of traffic based on ports I think it is. While a little on the expensive side, I am very happy with it.

+1 for Draytek's (Have a 2830n at home with the Openreach fibre modem)

As well as the above, you can apply a default bandwidth limit so that anyone else using the router not mentioned by Static IP also gets rate limited.

You can also rate limit Wireless seperately.
 
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