How to see and detect bandwidth use by internet users

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ronin630

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Good afternoon everyone!
I think my question is simple. I have a Netgear Nighthawk AX2600 router i use for a apartment, i share with friends. But,,lately,,the internet speed has slowed considerably, i think some people are tech savvy, and know how to manipulate the router ...or something...to give themselves/ their computers more bandwith,,cause my laptop goes to a crawl sometimes.

Can i do something so they can't hog all the bandwidth??? I would've googled my question,,but i'm not sure how to word the question.

Thank you.
 
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Most important is who pays the bill, that is who controls the bandwidth.

You next must get a agreement on whose traffic really is most important and how much bandwidth each person is allowed.

So after you get past all the "people" problems you move on to technical solutions. Many times the best is to run limiters on the end device so each person limits his traffic. There are a lot of these type of tools and even many of the applications (like steam for example) can limit their rate.

I do not know if your router has the ability. You want a form of QoS that can limit bandwidth by user/ip to fixed rates both inbound and outbound. This does not work real well on smaller internet connections. The rates are average rates so you...
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Most important is who pays the bill, that is who controls the bandwidth.

You next must get a agreement on whose traffic really is most important and how much bandwidth each person is allowed.

So after you get past all the "people" problems you move on to technical solutions. Many times the best is to run limiters on the end device so each person limits his traffic. There are a lot of these type of tools and even many of the applications (like steam for example) can limit their rate.

I do not know if your router has the ability. You want a form of QoS that can limit bandwidth by user/ip to fixed rates both inbound and outbound. This does not work real well on smaller internet connections. The rates are average rates so you still get spikes above the limited rate. On larger connections this is not as noticeable.

If your router does not have the proper QoS settings you might be able to put third party firmware on like dd-wrt but this is very dependent on the router model and even the hardware revision many times.

Many times you can't fix this problem if you have a smaller internet connection and can't buy more bandwidth from the ISP. Used to be things like 10mbps was easy for multiple people to use but with netflix and stuff a single user can easily use these type of connections. Sharing these smaller connection a lot of time comes down to someone not being able to do what they want to.

 
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