Traffic shaping? Bandwidth limiting?Forum: Networking Topic: Traffic shaping? Bandwidth limiting? started by: olliraa Posted by olliraa on Aug. 16 2005,07:38
Can I somehow restrict the bandwidth the dsl-laptop will use? I run a gameserver on the other machine and I don't want to cause trouble for players when my wife is surfing the net with the dsl-laptop:) I have 8 mbit dsl and like to "shrink" the bandwidth for a certain mac address. Is this possible?
Posted by mgmont on Aug. 18 2005,02:17
I do not know of a way to do this within DSL, that is not to say there is not a way. However, usually this type of thing is handled by a router on your network. The routers that have these type of capabilities are the higher end models such as Cisco routers. The routers the you normally use for home use do not have these capabilities.However, I would not think that one computer surfing the net would cause too much of a problem if you have an 8mb internet connection. Posted by Max on Aug. 18 2005,03:28
The low end (but highly capable) Linksys WRT54G has bandwidth shaping (e.g. QOS) in the official firmware. You can pick this up for about $40 now. Great for VOIP phone use too.Or you could put together your own router with and old box with the IPCOP distro. It has an QOS add in module also. |