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    Port throttling

    Me and my 2 flat mates are connected to a 1mb pipex line. 2 of us game alot, and one downlaods. Obviously you cant do both at the same time and have a stable ping. I know there are routers out there that share the bandwidth via port throttling, like the draytek 2600plus. They cost 140 quid and was wondering if there are any other ways to do this without splashing out on a new router. Im currently going through a draytek router atm

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    read up on QoS mate

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    who is QoS LOL, im a newvie to forums

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    The cheap and cheerful solution would be to buy an Linksys WRT54G for cheap (£45~) then use the Sveasoft firmware to do QoS filtering. I.e. give bittorent traffic low priority if constant stream of UDP traffic (i,e, gaming) is present.

    You could use a seperate PC and Linux with something similar to wondershaper etc, but I'ts way more fiddling to do, and unefficient.

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    QoS filtering is that like port throttling? Or is it more like using netlimiter and stating how much bandwidth to be used for each program? All i wanna do is give each computer 350kb/s each out of the 1000kb/s

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    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin4458
    QoS filtering is that like port throttling? Or is it more like using netlimiter and stating how much bandwidth to be used for each program? All i wanna do is give each computer 350kb/s each out of the 1000kb/s
    Yup, applied in different ways.

    My guess is that you need your low gaming latency whilst others browse? Im pretty sure the Sveasoft firmware can do that, confirm it on their forums?

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    hmm wish I could do some QoS stuff on my USR 9106 thingymabob.
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