Need to Limit Bandwidth between several devices.

[FnIrish]

I am in need of some guidance on how to limit bandwidth between several devices in my home. I have a 45MB down connection. I have my ASUS RT-AC66U (AC1750) Router hooked up through my ATT Modem/Router because my Router has better range and can support more devices. Currently I have my main SSID setup to where the 2.4Ghz and the 5Ghz band are the same name & password as well as them both being hidden networks. I also have a Guest account for people that come over and need internet access. The Guest account has its own name that I created and also is password protected. If I knew how to hide that SSID I would have done so. Anyway, I want my main SSID to carry most of the bandwidth as I do a lot of my work online as well as my gaming and streaming movies to my SmartTV downstairs. It seems as though when I have people on the Guest network that they end up using quite a bit of my bandwidth and it is hard for me to game or stream movies while they are on it. Any help would be much appreciated. I have been considering just getting a newer, more powerful router, but I am not sure if that would fix the issue.

 

[chadbry]

your router blows your internet connection out of the water. and besides some programs that allow you to set a download rate theres no way to use less of your internet bandwidth besides.....well not using it. turn streaming shows to sd etc. or tell them to get off.

 

[atf_mart]

I dont know if I understand you correctly but you want to limit the bandwidth that your guests use?

What I did at my house is I bought this TP- Link Router

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FWYGJS

and TP- Link Routers have this amazing Bandwidth control feautre were you can limit the bandwidth on an ip-range that you define.

So how I have it in my house is that, I have this router (its the router that everyone connects to) in the living room connected to my ISP modem(modem with wifi on but thats exclusively for my room use) and I set the router DHCP to give IP's in the range of 192.168.0.100-200 (never going to have more than 100 guests lol) and then you set a rule that ALL devices in that range have a max bandwidith of 7 mbps or (700 kb/s)(in my case I have a 20 mbps connecction so guests can only have 7 mbps) AND you set all your home devices, phone, gaming pc, tv tablets, static IP's outside the range 100-200 so lets say 192.168.0.1 - 1192.168.0.99, this devices wont be bandwidth limited.

Worked really good for me. Thats why I love TP-Link Routers all of them have that feature.

obviously you can buy a better TP-Link Router 5ghz WIFI AC and stuff like that, and it will come with that feature.

 

[aylafan]

I would try a 3rd-party firmware like Tomato by Shibby if you want to limit bandwidth between devices or applications. Bandwidth Limiter & Quality of Service (QoS) comes into mind. It has been designed for your ASUS RT-AC66U router. Google it.