Split internet between cable/wifi plus qos?

[Eric Shatnerlord]

Hi there,

I'm currently getting adsl through a thompson cable modem, but want to add the ability to surf on a laptop with wifi.

I want to keep my main pc as a cable connection for gaming purposes, and want that to ensure that it gets bandwidth priority. If possible I'd like to keep the bandwidth of the wifi down to 250 or 500k, and make sure it's secure.

I've got a bandwidth cap which I think I might get fairly close to sometimes, so making sure the laptop can't hog the bandwidth and that nobody else can get at it either are fairly important. Equally I don't want to keep pinging out all the time in games.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Bit of a noob on router/modem issues.

 

[n3f0ur]

Consumer routers can only do basic QoS like prioritizing Internet uses. Basic as in low, mid and high. No fine-tuning in Kbps. Only biz/enterprise-class routers (Cisco, Juniper, ZyWEL, etc.) can do that. QoS is also known as traffic shaping which is being done by some big ISPs for throttling heavy downloaders.

My suggestion is to get an affordable DD-WRT compatible wireless router and flash the firmware to DD-WRT standard which can do biz/enterprise-class QoS, among MANY other features. Set the minimal up/down-streams for all devices and exclude your own gaming rig by MAC so that it will be unthrottled. Here is what the web control looks like:

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-1035_11-170500-12.html
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service

As for which router to get, it's up to your market. Go to your e-store, browse wireless routers, copy and paste the make & model to this page for compatiblity. If it it`s supported, the available firmware downloads will be listed.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/dd-wrt/hardware.html