- May 10, 2013
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Hey all, we just moved into our apartment and are trying to get our infrastructure set up and ready to go. We have the 30mbps plan from Charter, but we're hitting a strange issue. If any one of us decides to download a big file, it literally dedicates all of our connection speed to that one person.
We thought the router was the issue, so we went out and bought a Linksys EA6300. One of the ports in our router leads to a switch where the rest of us are hooked up via Ethernet. So we're only using one of the four ports provided on the router. We thought it was a problem with the switch at first, so we hooked one of our systems straight into the router, but we were running into the same issues.
What I want to do is to limit any connection that connects to our router to about 8mbps. That way if someone downloads a big file, it won't completely destroy everyone else's connection. I've dug around the Linksys interface, but I can find absolutely nothing to help us out. I also have no clue on which third party programs are best to use. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you!!
We thought the router was the issue, so we went out and bought a Linksys EA6300. One of the ports in our router leads to a switch where the rest of us are hooked up via Ethernet. So we're only using one of the four ports provided on the router. We thought it was a problem with the switch at first, so we hooked one of our systems straight into the router, but we were running into the same issues.
What I want to do is to limit any connection that connects to our router to about 8mbps. That way if someone downloads a big file, it won't completely destroy everyone else's connection. I've dug around the Linksys interface, but I can find absolutely nothing to help us out. I also have no clue on which third party programs are best to use. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you!!
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