Limiting traffic

Ryan111 · 29 Aug 2009 at 12:24

Basically, i want to limit the downstream and upstream to my sisters laptop. When I play games online, she uses msn and does webcam conversations and youtube stuff. Is there anyway to limit the bandwith she gets through the router?

I have the D-link DIR-615 that came with my virgin 20meg, also what would be an acceptable limit? 1meg down 0.1meg up? that will be enough for her just on msn and youtube?

Thanks

Daegan · 29 Aug 2009 at 12:46

You might be able to prioritise your gaming traffic using the routers QoS facilities, but you won't be able to limit the bandwidth to your sisters laptop.

Ryan111 · 29 Aug 2009 at 12:50

I tried the QoS, but it put my upload speed as 690 when i can get 710 without it on... Ill try gaming with it on, might improve it.

If not, is there any software i can install on her laptop?

tehgazza · 29 Aug 2009 at 21:57

god your going to moan over 20kbit/s? i dont think that dialup upstream amount of bandwidth is actually NEEDED.

BigRazer93 · 29 Aug 2009 at 22:42

Yeah ryan 1mb down and 0.1 up will be fine, and i am sure there is facility in the router settings to limit traffic

Daegan · 29 Aug 2009 at 23:05

Ben-Irvine93 said:
Yeah ryan 1mb down and 0.1 up will be fine, and i am sure there is facility in the router settings to limit traffic

Consumer routers are clever enough to be able to prioritise different types of traffic based on the ports they use. They're not clever enough to allocate specific amounts of bandwidth to individual devices.

Azuse05 · 30 Aug 2009 at 11:00

Actually they can, just not a 615.

Daegan · 30 Aug 2009 at 11:14

Give us an example.

Edit: actually I can see Draytek can, any others?