Protecting connection strength

Cianos · 27-01-2009 08:25PM #1

Hey,
I was wondering if there was a way to guarantee a certain speed when sharing a router? For example, if someone is downloading a big file, it could make the connection too weak for the other person. If there was a way to ensure a quota of speed for both, it'd be more fair and both could use the net at the same time without risk of disconnecting.

Does anything like this exist?

Thanks

yoyo · 27-01-2009 08:35PM

If you use a download manager or Torrent program, most have integrated "Speed Limit" modes which work great, I have my 6meg connection to drop to 5 Meg if in speed limit mode which frees up 1 meg for other family users if there on,

Nick

Cianos · 27-01-2009 08:37PM

yoyo wrote: »

If you use a download manager or Torrent program, most have integrated "Speed Limit" modes which work great, I have my 6meg connection to drop to 5 Meg if in speed limit mode which frees up 1 meg for other family users if there on,

Nick

Thanks for the reply. It's my flatmate who would be downloading things and as far as I know he would stream directly off the net, which wouldn't have speed settings.

I was hoping there was a way to do it via the router itself or something.

Myxomatosis · 27-01-2009 08:48PM

Depending on the make of the router, there should be some QOS (Quality of Service) options on there.

Basically you can assign a percentage of the available bandwidth to certain computers.

What's the make of router? Log into the router via HTTP and have a look around.

PaddyTheNth · 27-01-2009 09:58PM

As Myxomatosis said, QOS is how this is achieved.

Its not a massively common feature in the bog-standard home network routers.

If you're lucky, you may have a router which is capable of being flashed with either Tomato or DD-WRT firmware, both of which can do QOS.

Protecting connection strength

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