Router Question
 

Hi All,
I have Telewest 10 meg my son wants a pc upstairs can i get a router and adjust the bandwith to his comuter ? say 2mb to his and the remaining 8 to mine......many thanks...1st Post...cheeers

Re: Router Question
 

:welcome: to Cable Forum :D

you will need to get a router that allows for QoS functions in order that you can throttle bandwidth.

Do you need wired or wireless?

Thread moved to networking ;)

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hi rob wireless would be better if not do you know how much 4 an extra modem on cheapest package in his room i have 2 tv and 1 broadband at the moment....thanks 4 the reply..

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Unless you are continually hammerring the download / upload getting a second modem would be expensive in the long term. I doub't youd see a benefit. For example my office with 15PCs happily shares one 2meg ADSL connection, and there is browsing and emailing virtually continuously through the day.

As for a wireless router the Lingsys WRT54G (or GS) has been popular with many CF members, but I'm not sure if it does have the QoS function.

Re: Router Question
 

QoS options are available on the WRT54G but this only really applies to wired ports.

You can't choose the specific bandwidths to give the ports but you can give one port a higher priority that the others (you can also apply QoS to wired MAC addresses).

e.g. I have a VoIP phone connected to port 4 so I have given that a higher priority.

Hope that helps.

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i remember seeing somewere that the 3rd party firmwares have a package/script for wireless QoS and baud rate control etc that ran on the wireless router, but that was last year, perhaps Druchii can find a reference to it?, he's been messing with 3rd party firmware recently.

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You are correct, the special version of DD-WRT has this option :D
It costs 20 Euros mind, but it's well worth it :D

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Correct, I'm running DD-WRT v23 SP1 on my Linksys WRT54GL and it has excellent QoS features. You can limit the amount of bandwidth to each ethernet port on the router, etc.

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But not via wireless ;) I'm running the Micro build and i know you can't.
However, with the special build, it's possible via MAC address :D

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Nobody said anything about wireless :p:

But yeah, you can't restrict the bandwidth to wireless clients with the DD-WRT Standard build. At least not in the version I'm using anyway.

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i did and it does exist , i just cant remember that far back for something i dont use :sleep: