Prioritise home network?

[nic55]

Hi,i would like to know how to prioritise my network at home.The reason I ask is because my brother when he plays on his PS4.It eats a lot of bandwidth and it is affecting the overall performance of the ADSL broadband internet in my home.I have been throttled twice in a row for the same reason.I have an uncapped account so it throttles when I reach the threshold bandwith for the month.Can you please give me some advice,thanks.

 

[nic55]

Just to let your'll know the model of the roter,i got a D-Link DSL-2750u router.

 

[das_stig]

Video, Gaming, browsing/email etc is the data priority.

Now gaming itself, does not eat a lot of bandwidth, it's all the downloads that come with from Stream etc that eat bandwidth, unless your monthly upload cap is rubbish.

If you want to stop him hitting caps, you will need to apply QOS of some sort and assign it to his static IP or MAC, DHCP IP does not work.

 

[nic55]

What do u mean by assign static IP or MAC address?

 

[das_stig]

ok, stop right there, if your not familiar with static IP or MAC terms, then mucking around in the routers advance config, may just screw everything up for all.