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Limiting bandwidth to a PC on network
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The weak link in your setup for your strategy is the Sky router.
You can switch to using Open DNS for DNS servers which would give you an element of being able to block sites, but this is easily got around. To do this properly you want a router that has some kind of content filtering or blocking.
With regards to limiting bandwidth - what's the goal of doing so? Is it to limit the throughput (eg can only use a certain % of the speed), or is it to have a bandwidth cap (eg can only use X GB per day/week/month), or is it to restrict so it can't be used during certain periods of time?
You can switch to using Open DNS for DNS servers which would give you an element of being able to block sites, but this is easily got around. To do this properly you want a router that has some kind of content filtering or blocking.
With regards to limiting bandwidth - what's the goal of doing so? Is it to limit the throughput (eg can only use a certain % of the speed), or is it to have a bandwidth cap (eg can only use X GB per day/week/month), or is it to restrict so it can't be used during certain periods of time?
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Pretty much this, throw the sky router into more of a modem mode (you just need to turn everything off and forward all the ports) and grab a decent router which can do QOS
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You could limit speed/throughput using QoS and set time limits using parental controls with an Asus router. The restrictions can be applied using the MAC addresses of the devices you wish to limit. In this way it would be per-device rather than everything.