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Which of these Wi-Fi routers support distributing bandwidth to devices?

Exodias3219

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Hello! I'm looking for an affordable wi-fi router that can setup a specific bandwidth for each devices. I'm having trouble with our internet connect at home since when someone watches on Youtube it takes all the bandwidth leaving me only like 20-50kbps (3mbps/300kbps internet subscription). I want to divide the bandwidth that every device gets like 50-75kbps. Our ISP already provided a cheap modem router, which doesn't support bandwidth management.

The following are the wifi-routers I'm looking:
1000PHP = 19.448 US Dollar

1. wifi router: Dlink DIR 605L wifi N300
PHP 1180.00 — LAN/NET Devices
2.wifi router: Asus RT N12HP N300
PHP 2180.00 — LAN/NET Devices
3.wifi router: Linksys E1200 AP/AU wifi N300
PHP 1690.00 — LAN/NET Devices
4.wifi router: Mi Router 3 wifi AC1200 dual band quad antenna
PHP 2150.00 — LAN/NET Devices
5.wifi router: Tenda wifi N300 5dBi 4 antenna pn: FH456
PHP 1090.00 — LAN/NET Devices
6.wifi router: TPLink Archer C20 wifi AC750 dual band 2 antenna
PHP 2020.00 — LAN/NET Devices
7.wifi router: TPLink WR841HP wifi N300 2 antenna high power
PHP 1950.00 — LAN/NET Devices

Thanks!



 
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If you only have a 3Mbps plan with your ISP, no other router is going to fix your problem -- for streaming video they are simply using almost all of the bandwidth and if you throttle their use they cannot stream. Take the cheap route and just tell everyone no streaming and a violation will result in total loss of Internet access for them.

Of those routers the Archer 20 probably has the best QoS, but it still is not great on consumer level routers. It is pretty much high middle and low priority. Moreover you simply don't have the bandwidth to give anyone a decent share to do much.
If you only have a 3Mbps plan with your ISP, no other router is going to fix your problem -- for streaming video they are simply using almost all of the bandwidth and if you throttle their use they cannot stream. Take the cheap route and just tell everyone no streaming and a violation will result in total loss of Internet access for them.

Of those routers the Archer 20 probably has the best QoS, but it still is not great on consumer level routers. It is pretty much high middle and low priority. Moreover you simply don't have the bandwidth to give anyone a decent share to do much.
 
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