Shared connection.

[neocr0n]

Currently running a connection where a few people connect on wireless to my router.  I'm looking at a way to restrict their share of the connection in terms of the speeds they can achive when downloading etc.

I'm currently using a Billion 5200g router, it has QoS options but I'm not sure if they are enough to do the trick and even if they are I'm not quite suer how to go about it.  Will this require some other software if so which one and how is it done?

Thanks in advance,

Ron

[Simon]

Haven't a clue myself, Ron, but I'm sure one of our techie whizz-kids will be able to help you soon. 

[g7pkf]

Hope there in the same household

how big are your pockets coz i think (and don't quote me, only briefly looked at this many years ago) your gonna need quite a serious bit of kit to restrict bandwidth to each user.

although you could simply use QOS to prioritize traffic.

eg:-
voip gets priority
webbrowsing gets 2nd priortity
then email
then p2p

but if you don't want to go over allowance my main point comes into play.

[Lance]

I'm pretty sure this can't be done with software on your machine, as the users connect to the router and then straight out onto the net. I wonder if one of the linux based firewalls (which people often run on old machines) might be able to do what you want. I can't remember the name of one at the moment.

[Sebby]

I've no idea as it's not something I've ever done myself. However, prioritising traffic with QoS would work, although it wouldn't limit speeds as such, but rather would mean that high priority services don't suffer.

[DeViTTo]

I've no idea as it's not something I've ever done myself. However, prioritising traffic with QoS would work, although it wouldn't limit speeds as such, but rather would mean that high priority services don't suffer.

Yea thats about the cheapest solution. I do it for my own connection I allocate or reserve an IP from the DHCP pool for each of the computers then I enter in the QoS engine my own IP address and set priority 1, I can set which traffic I want prioritised UDP, TCP and it works. Helps when I'm gaming  The trouble is I haven't told others on the line as I'm the payer of the bill they just consider their connection the norm.

Do you think I should tell them?

[Sebby]

If you're the bill payer, no. If they started to chip in, then I'd say yes.

[Lance]

I would tell them unless they paid a contribution, either. 

[ducky22]

I'd get something like the linksys wrt54gs, v4 if possible.

Its a cable modem router, but all you need to do is plug it into your adsl router.

I'd then download some custom firmware like dd-wrt/openwrt etc.

OpenWRT has a lot of custom hacks for it and a few of them allow for proper QoS. I also believe you can limit bandwidth per port but not sure if that can be done to wireless clients (would need to research).

[ducky22]

And in a 2 second google search I found out its possible to limit bandwidth, ie 400kbit to a particular IP but it doesn't look like the simplest thing to put in place.......

[Sebby]

A lot of these hack-type features can be quite complex. A lot of the time, it's just being bothered to read through the mountain of information.

[DeViTTo]

If you're the bill payer, no. If they started to chip in, then I'd say yes.

I asked them to chip in so ill just alter the router for the ones that are paying.

I would tell them unless they paid a contribution, either. 

The good news is I'm going to get Supermax as they are now paying. 

[Lance]

Whoops, i meant wouldn't tell them!

Enjoy the new package!