I am helping a friend who is interested in renting out a garage apartment. He wants to provide internet to the apartment by sharing his current ISP service. However he is concerned that the tenants may use more bandwidth than he would prefer. So he is looking for a way to throttle the connection to allow for moderate use but also wouldn't let downloads suck up the whole connection. He wants to be a landlord not a network manager.
My thought was to make the internet available to the apartment via a 10 mbs ethernet connection. I am unsure how to do this as all switches I know of are auto negotiating to the fastest setting. Would using a long run of old ethernet cable such as Cat 5 force a modern switch to a 10 mbs connection? Is there another way to accomplish this?
My second thought was to provide a "B" only WiFi connection. However that is very slow and puts him in the position of being the wifi administrator.
My thought was to make the internet available to the apartment via a 10 mbs ethernet connection. I am unsure how to do this as all switches I know of are auto negotiating to the fastest setting. Would using a long run of old ethernet cable such as Cat 5 force a modern switch to a 10 mbs connection? Is there another way to accomplish this?
My second thought was to provide a "B" only WiFi connection. However that is very slow and puts him in the position of being the wifi administrator.
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