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Throttling bandwidth usage at home

I have a computer on my home network which I wish to throttle.

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Guest [Entry]

I use a D-Link DGL-4100 gaming router. Has great QoS/bandwidth filtering.
Guest [Entry]

"I use mikrotik RouterOS at most of our sites, has simple queues (based on target address/ip/ip range/packet mark) or full queue tree's for setting up your own QoS systems as well.

Probably the best part about this setup is that I can also use burstable queues, that allow a user to burst above their allowed transfer speed for X amount of time.

Eg: I can assign a queue to a user that limits them to 10Mbps/256Kbps and then set a burstable queue rate of 20Mbps/512Kbps over 60 seconds.

This allows regular web-browsing users etc etc to download at 20Mbps with no problem, soon as a user begins downloading thou, their speed is cut back to the 10Mbps limit.

You can get a preinstalled router from them along with a licence for much less than you'd pay for most decent home-grade routers. (See their sister site http://www.routerboard.com)"
Guest [Entry]

Are you referring to a wireless router or something wired that will sit in a rack? If wireless, I recommend DDWRT. It will run on alot of routers and is very configurable. You can give bandwidth priority to a certain machine or allot a small amount to other machines.
Guest [Entry]

"DD-WRT is also my recommendation. It's an open-source custom firmware for the Linksys WRT series routers, and can be found at dd-wrt.com

I've used it for many years and have been quite impressed by it."