How to limit or control bandwidth / speed, for certain ip addresses connected through router

baratron · Aug 27, 2015

Hello,
I have a cable internet connection, and I share this connection with my 2 tenants, through a router, they use it to for their phones and laptops.
I need to limit their speed, because I work from home, and I need a lot more bandwidth than they do.
I have Windows 7, 64 bit.

Modem:
Motorola sb5101i

Router:
Belkin f6d4230-4 v1

I know these are quite old devices, and because of this, it has been difficult to find a way to control their bandwidth. My router's configuration page is limited, and I have downloaded and tried different programs with no success yet.
Any other details or specs, you might need, feel free to ask.

I would really appreciate if someone would lead me to a solution for this.
Thanks in advance.

bill001g · Aug 27, 2015

Likely you can't with your equipment. It needs a special QoS config. Many of the newest routers do not have that ability. I know the asus and tplink have the ability with factory software.

Your other option is to load third party firmware like dd-wrt on the router but I don't know if your supports it.

In any case what you need is a router that can set hard coded limits to the download and upload rates. You would match the ip/mac of the tenants machines and limit them to some fixed value. So if you have say 20m down you could limit them each to 5m or if you work at it you could limit them combined to 5m.

It mostly works but there are cases it does not work well.

baratron · Aug 27, 2015

Thank you for your answer, I looked it up for dd-wrt , and it isn't supported.
I will probably ask the tenants to get their own isp.

capt_taco · Aug 27, 2015

Supposedly that router does let you use QoS settings under Wireless -> Channel and SSID
http://screenshots.portforward.com/routers/Belkin/F6D4230-4v1/Channel_and_SSID.htm

Basically you would go in and give your devices highest priority and theirs lower ones. I have no idea how the submenus are set up on that router, but it looks like theoretically you CAN do it.

bill001g · Aug 27, 2015

capt_taco :

That is something completely different. It is related to wireless data inside the house. It actually does very little because it designed to make VoIP data work. It has almost no use on a home router.

What does High priority and Low prioirty mean ? No vender really explains this.

Still it can not solve the problem even if is has this feature Say the tenants are downloading huge files and he wants to watch netflix. The ISP gets all this data and it does not fit in the connection going to his house the ISP randomly drops data and send what is left.

Now the router gets what left.....and wow it sets the tenants traffic to LOW....what good does that do the netflix data is already gone. It does not magically recreate the data the ISP dropped and drop the tenant data instead.

The only method that even partially works is for a router to take the data it received from the ISP and drop even more of the tenants data in the hopes that the machine will detect the even greater packet loss and slow down its requests. Even this does not work but it is the best options. This option though to set hard limits and drop even more traffic is not on most routers.

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