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Uncle Peter · 27-02-2012, 22:39

Consumer level routers are designed to be easy to use generally at the expense of limiting functionality so you are unlikely to find anything other than basic QoS.

iirc dd-wrt (not sure about tomato) supports real throttling down to mac address level as opposed to prioritisation which your router supports. Unfortunately your router is not of the type that supports dd-wrt.

You could still achieve your aims with QoS but that would be dependant on identifying which applications are eating up your bandwidth and how they behave.

27-02-2012, 22:39	#4
Uncle Peter 81-82-83-84 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 55 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: Prioritising internet traffic through my Belkin G Wireless Router Consumer level routers are designed to be easy to use generally at the expense of limiting functionality so you are unlikely to find anything other than basic QoS. iirc dd-wrt (not sure about tomato) supports real throttling down to mac address level as opposed to prioritisation which your router supports. Unfortunately your router is not of the type that supports dd-wrt. You could still achieve your aims with QoS but that would be dependant on identifying which applications are eating up your bandwidth and how they behave.