BT-HUB 5 Limiting ethernet speed?

[Kanagaroo]

I'm using a TP-LINK to provide ethernet to my PC upstairs from my router. When i check the connection speed in the router page it stays at 100mbps, no higher, no less. I thought that it wouldn't be capped like this as our wireless connections go easily above 100mbps.
Is there a way of un-limiting this speed? - I would assume thats whats going on here

Also my wired connection is also impacted heavily when someone using a wireless connection loads a video, or streams something. With a constant connection speed I wouldn't think this would be happening but still is.
Is there a way to stop my connection being heavily affected by video streaming whilst not completely stopping certain PCs using the internet? (i.e. bandwidth throttling, but i don't think i can do it with the BT-HUB 5)

 

[bill001g]

What tplink do you have. Does it have gig ethernet ports.

Your wireless connections are a big lie in most cases. The very fastest 802.11ac can maybe go 300m connecting to a some rare nic card that has 4 antenna. They claim over 1g speeds and get only a fraction.

It sounds like you have a slow internet connection. The wireless will not affect the wired connections unless the router has a bug. You still share the common internet and if you do not have enough bandwidth you will have issues no matter how fast your port are.

Most routers from ISP have extremely limited ability to limit bandwidht. Still this is mostly a family discussion rather than a technical one. If you limit the video usage it really is no different that yelling down the hall get off the internet you are affecting my performance.

 

[Kanagaroo]

What tplink do you have. Does it have gig ethernet ports.

Your wireless connections are a big lie in most cases. The very fastest 802.11ac can maybe go 300m connecting to a some rare nic card that has 4 antenna. They claim over 1g speeds and get only a fraction.

It sounds like you have a slow internet connection. The wireless will not affect the wired connections unless the router has a bug. You still share the common internet and if you do not have enough bandwidth you will have issues no matter how fast your port are.

Most routers from ISP have extremely limited ability to limit bandwidht. Still this is mostly a family discussion rather than a technical one. If you limit the video usage it really is no different that yelling down the hall get off the internet you are affecting my performance.

I have a 600mbps Nano TP LINK, the speed is fine when no video streaming a is being done. As for a family problem, I've already told him that he's screwing up my connection but he just watches them anyway. I've tried fiddling around with the 2.4Ghz band ( what the PC is connected to) to make the whole thing slower but there's also lots of other devices in that network.

 

[bill001g]

100m is about the speed you can expect from any powerline devices running the so called 600m. Again like wireless these numbers are a lie. You do not actually have ethernet you have a powerline connection and its speed is greatly affected by the electrical wires in your house.

Still none of that matters since it appears your problem is the speed of your internet connection. What speed do you buy from the ISP. I doubt if you had a 100m or more internet connection someone watching video would have much effect. Even watching 4k video from netflix only uses 20mbit. I suspect you have a much lower plan.

The best option is to buy a faster internet connection so that everyone can do what they need and not impact others. Not sure if they offer faster service by you or if you are willing to pay the extra.

Pretty much the bt-hub is a stupid box it does not have the features you need to limit traffic the way you want. You will need to buy a different router and use the bt-hub as a modem. You need something that has fairly advanced QoS to so what you want. It must have the ability to limit traffic both up and down to specific rates. Most times people load third party firmware but some of the better asus and tplink models have some ok QoS abilities on there high end models.

If you can change nothing then I suppose you could use the option to disable the wireless radios in your router, I know the bt-hub can do that. Still unless the other person agrees you are likely to cause massive problems by cutting someones internet off.