Lunk December 27, 2013 Share Lunk December 27, 2013 What's a good gaming router for under $100? If possible one that I can throttle thru put for certain users. I'm tired of my ping sky-rocketing every time my wife or daughters hop onto FB, YouTube or whatever other place they deem important on the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 27, 2013 Share stutters December 27, 2013 Are you sure your current router doesn't support this? It's typically in the QoS section, which is usually somewhere in an advanced tab. Once you find that, look for anything that is MAC address related. You can throttle bandwidth there. Post up what router you have and I'll dig through the manual. I've got some free time for the next few days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsblood December 28, 2013 Share Wolfsblood December 28, 2013 I'm running an old Linksys WRT 51g and I thought about doing that back when my wife was playing Star Wars Galaxies. I hated that game (and the monthly fee) and figured if her computer was laggy, she'd stop playing. I decided I liked living more than I wanted her computer to connect slowly to the server.Now my issue is we're using the internet connection to stream content our Roku, plus a couple smart phones, a nook, and sometimes an old ifone that uses wifi. Fortunately I don't do much online gaming anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunk December 28, 2013 Author Share Lunk December 28, 2013 Are you sure your current router doesn't support this? It's typically in the QoS section, which is usually somewhere in an advanced tab. Once you find that, look for anything that is MAC address related. You can throttle bandwidth there. Post up what router you have and I'll dig through the manual. I've got some free time for the next few days... It's a Linksys WRT54GS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 28, 2013 Share stutters December 28, 2013 It's a Linksys WRT54GS. This should be specific to that model... Go to Applications and Gaming Click QoS tab (last tab) Go into MAC Device Priority Get the MAC addresses of the devices you want to limit (don't forget about phones and tablets). Set those to the lowest priority Set yours to the highest priority It's not a true bandwidth speed cap, but it should take care of what you're looking for. If it doesn't, you could install the tomato firmware on your WRT and then set some specific QoS rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunk December 28, 2013 Author Share Lunk December 28, 2013 Thanks Stutters! I think I'll give the tomato firmware a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samurai nightling December 28, 2013 Share samurai nightling December 28, 2013 Now if my desktop is connected through the router, not really using the wireless signal, will people using the wireless affect my internet speed as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan December 28, 2013 Share JackieChan December 28, 2013 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 28, 2013 Share stutters December 28, 2013 sometimes when people write things over here, i miss it and have no idea what they're talking about. why do you that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakgyrl510 December 28, 2013 Share oakgyrl510 December 28, 2013 (edited) sometimes when people write things over here, i miss it and have no idea what they're talking about. why do you that? it's not intentional, its the layout of the forum. it alters text. if i have my browser on full view, it doesnt do that, but i use windowed browser, it squishes the text to the right side often for the first lines. ex: samurai's post above is like that on windowed browser for me, but if i go full, its fixed. u'll notice his text isnt right aligned for first 2 lines because the right side is not aligned, where as in ur post about this, it is. Edited December 28, 2013 by oakgyrl510 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 28, 2013 Share stutters December 28, 2013 that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glgl December 28, 2013 Share glgl December 28, 2013 Thanks Stutters! I think I'll give the tomato firmware a try. Did you already have QoS enabled? I actually had it enabled and set up on my router a long time ago, and ran in to the same issues that you mentioned. GF would get on and just browse and my ping would skyrocket. Turned out the QoS was messing everything up (don't ask me how). It actually all worked fine when I turned it off and I've just left it off since. Try disabling it before you install the other stuff, might be a simple fix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters December 28, 2013 Share stutters December 28, 2013 Thanks Stutters! I think I'll give the tomato firmware a try. Try disabling it before you install the other stuff, might be a simple fix If you're setting QoS by protocol, that's not surprising, especially if you're using the default protocol/service types. AFAIK, you need to set MAC address-based QoS rules to limit bandwidth to a specific device. You may be able to do this in your WRT-54g settings (Application and Gaming -> QoS -> MAC Device Priority). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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