how do i limit someones bandwidth who is on my home network?
i have a Wireless router Linksys WRT54G v6. There is someone on my network who hogs all the bandwidth and i want to limit there usage. i tried looking for simple solutions but everything seems so complicated. I tried adding a third party firmware to my router but i broke it and spent hours trying to fix it. I have full access to their computer and i was wondering if there was a way to put something in there computer to limit internet access. I was wondering if there was some kind of program that i can Control bandwidth or if there was something i can install on her computer so they cannot use too much bandwidth.
thanks
Ehh, a WRT54Gv6 IIRC can only use a micro version of third party firmware. DD-WRT I believe is the only one available for it. OpenWRT may be possible, but it would likely need to be a custom build.
I can’t remember off the top of my head if QOS is an available option on the stripped down version of DD-WRT or not.
I am not aware of any software for a client machine that will allow bandwidth to be limited, though there may be something out there. If there is it would have to be something that the user could not access and disable. The other issue is that local network speed/available bandwidth is not the same as internet connection available bandwidth, so if it is possible to limit the traffic in such a way it will affect local network traffic as well.
QOS at a router is really the way to handle it though. Besides the option of replacing the router with one that has QOS features or running a third party firmware, you could take an old machine – throw a basic firewall distro of linux on it throw it between the hardware router and the rest of the network (basically adding another router to the network) and setup qos on it. This would also have the added benefit of being able to act as a proxy cache server (taking some of the load off the internet connection) as well.
Simpsons Hit&Run – No Jump Limit (HQ)
