I want to be able to divide bandwidth only while under load

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chefymcjanglebob

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I am going to be sharing a house with 6 people. We'll have 6 ethernet cords going to each room and then one wireless router. I want to be able to divide bandwidth between all 7 outputs, but only if a lot is being used. In other words, I don't want to get 1/7th bandwidth if I am only one on. But I don't one person sucking all the bandwidth. How can I go about doing this?
 
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This tends to be very hard to do in general because in most case the actual problem is occurring outside your house. The over use point is normally at the ISP device when it attempt to send to your house and you are at the limit you have purchased. The ISP will make the choice of what to drop and there is not a magic program on your router that can get that data back.

Now you to a point can put in hard limits so each can have 1/7th of the bandwidth. This only works on consumer routers with very advanced QoS as it is. This is a small handful of Asus and tplink as well as ones running dd-wrt. I have discussed this method a number of times before on this forum.

What you are asking for is a level above that you want this to...
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bill001g

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This tends to be very hard to do in general because in most case the actual problem is occurring outside your house. The over use point is normally at the ISP device when it attempt to send to your house and you are at the limit you have purchased. The ISP will make the choice of what to drop and there is not a magic program on your router that can get that data back.

Now you to a point can put in hard limits so each can have 1/7th of the bandwidth. This only works on consumer routers with very advanced QoS as it is. This is a small handful of Asus and tplink as well as ones running dd-wrt. I have discussed this method a number of times before on this forum.

What you are asking for is a level above that you want this to dynamically be applied based on load. You are now talking about using commercial traffic shapers. It can also be done to a point with a IOS based cisco commercial router. It is a very non standard QoS but it can be done.

Still you can only do so much. Some data just refuses to be limited by things you run in your house to really do this the ISP would need to be running traffic shaping for you which of course they do for business who pay them big money.
 
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