Limiting multiple users on WIFI on a single setup?

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Hi, i recently moved in with my GF and lets say internet is not cutting it out. I have 10mb down and 1mb up. Yeah i know 1mb is crap.

Anyway, she barely uses the internet, but when she does, most of the time it LAG Spikes while I play.

I was hoping i could limit her up to 4mb down speed and 200kb/s up, so she can browse the internet with no problem, maybe watch netflix with no problem whatsoever, but in the same time i could play with no lag spikes.

I have a Linksys Cisco, I do have a QoS enabled. I was wondering, instead of creating 1 user for her cellphone, 1 user for each of my 2 cellphones, 1 user for ipad, 1 user for ps4, etc.

Can I just make a username as a guest and limit them overall? And if so, please mind explaining or point me where to go or how to start? Thank you in advance
 
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It depends on the QoS settings. You either create a group or the router may have one that puts all users in a default group. It really depends if you have get a subnet mask that matches all.... ie all zero. You then create a group for the 1 machines so it does not match the larger group.. At this point you would limit the default group to some number leaving the rest available to your one machine.

Hard to say most the QoS on router is smoke and mirror and does practically nothing. Many let you set things like DSCP values that are remove by ISP and/or set things to silly poorly define thing like high,medium,low. Only devices that have the ability to hard limit a group to some fixed amount is of any benefit.

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The best improvement you could make is taking the gaming box off wifi and running a cable.

I have never looked into limiting WiFi speed and avoid LinkSys stuff but with all the desktops and laptops having access to a cable, (of course if you want to lay in bed or sit in den instead of sit at desk, you lose the cable) gaming lag is not an issue.

Could you be more specific on the router and modem model numbers ? Is the internet speed limited by the ISP or the model itself ? The Cisco-Linksys BEFCMU10 Ethernet Cable Modem has some rather poor specs (Up to 42 Mbps download speeds, 10 Mbps upload ) and that's a) with a small "b" and "up to" means fastest speed for a millisecond .. average is a whole lot less.
 
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I have 7 devices conected to the WIFI, and obviously my PC connected through cable.

I would like to limit those 7 devices 4mb's and the rest to my desktop.

I have true 10mbpsdown/1mbup. which means, never changes unless there is a damage on the wires.
 
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It depends on the QoS settings. You either create a group or the router may have one that puts all users in a default group. It really depends if you have get a subnet mask that matches all.... ie all zero. You then create a group for the 1 machines so it does not match the larger group.. At this point you would limit the default group to some number leaving the rest available to your one machine.

Hard to say most the QoS on router is smoke and mirror and does practically nothing. Many let you set things like DSCP values that are remove by ISP and/or set things to silly poorly define thing like high,medium,low. Only devices that have the ability to hard limit a group to some fixed amount is of any benefit.

On top of all this you really can't really limit the download rates only the upload. By the time your router gets involved on download any data is already discard and you can't recreate the data and drop something else. There are fancy QoS configs that attempt to limit download but what they are really doing is attempting to trick the end client into requesting less data.
 
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