Tomato on WRT54GL and restricting bandwidth

[wedge22]

I have the above router with Tomato and I have noticed that since getting it my internet just seems to be alot slower. Is there any way of speeding things up in the settings? I connect via 2 homeplugs which have always worked fine, but just to double check I also used wifi and it was still slow. I have 2 tenants that use my internet connection both on wifi. Is there anyway to limit their monthly bandwidth?

[Jay]

you could do it wit monowall or even pfSense but I don't know a way to do it on tomato. You can use the QoS feature of Tomato to maybe help out a bit though.

[jamin]

I use ddwrt on a wrt54g which is similar. Have never come across a way to limit monthly bandwidth but then again I never needed to.

On thing that springs to mind (based on ddwrt) that might help as your tenants are wifi. Is you could activate one of the included wifi hotspot deamons and assign your tenants a username a password to use the internet, this would also put them in a vlan keeping them seperate from your own part of the network. And you should be able to track and restrict their usage better.

Otherwise, filter out the possible bandwidth guzzling p2p protocols in the setup and use QOS as Jay mentioned to prioritse your mac address. Be aware though that you will all still appear on the same network, do you trust your tenants?

[wedge22]

Ok I have setup the QOS to prioritise my MAC address as suggested, thanks. I am unable to find anyway of setting up a wifi hotspot daemon as mention and I like this idea, any help with setting this up in Tomato would be appreciated.