home wifi network needs updating?
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I'm on Virgin cable interweb, ex Blueyonder Telewest. We have a cable modem thing and then a router which sends to 3 fixed PC's plus 2 wifi base thingies.
The problem I have is that the kids are taking most of my bandwidth with webcam and VOIP and X Box or whatever it is.
Is there a router that will let me choose what bandwidth to what PC/base station and let them suffer the rest?
The problem I have is that the kids are taking most of my bandwidth with webcam and VOIP and X Box or whatever it is.
Is there a router that will let me choose what bandwidth to what PC/base station and let them suffer the rest?
^^ What he said. But some implementations of QoS are a bit scrappy and don't give you many options.
My advice? Get any router that supports DD-WRT and install DD-WRT into it.
DD-WRT is a third party router firmware, and it is incredible. After experiences with many different routers and their sloppy config pages and complete lack of advanced features, I installed this and never looked back. It is amazing.
It also happens to have full-featured QoS on it, where you can set traffic priority by IP address, application, MAC address or even which physical network port a wired PC is plugged in to, or any combination of these.
Once it's installed it's a doddle to use.
My advice? Get any router that supports DD-WRT and install DD-WRT into it.
DD-WRT is a third party router firmware, and it is incredible. After experiences with many different routers and their sloppy config pages and complete lack of advanced features, I installed this and never looked back. It is amazing.
It also happens to have full-featured QoS on it, where you can set traffic priority by IP address, application, MAC address or even which physical network port a wired PC is plugged in to, or any combination of these.
Once it's installed it's a doddle to use.
Depending on their age, bang on the door and tell them to stop using the internet because Daddy wants to surf porn? 
More sensibly, the above suggestions might well work, however if you're using something old like 802.11b then upgrading everything to G or pre-N might well do the trick, bit more costly than exercising your right to be an evil parent though
More sensibly, the above suggestions might well work, however if you're using something old like 802.11b then upgrading everything to G or pre-N might well do the trick, bit more costly than exercising your right to be an evil parent though
Yesterday the router packed up. Went to PCW and bought a new router with 4 wired LANs and wifi built in, plus a 8 switch. All plumbed in nicely now - removed the old wifi senders as the new router/sender works better than the previous 2 senders signal wise. All nice & secure too.
But, the reason for my slowish broadbean was that when Telewest upgraded to 10mb they were meant to send us a new modem. They've since done an upgrade to 20mb, still the old modem so its only capable of 4mb. They are now crediting us, and sending a new modem. Zoooooooom.
But, the reason for my slowish broadbean was that when Telewest upgraded to 10mb they were meant to send us a new modem. They've since done an upgrade to 20mb, still the old modem so its only capable of 4mb. They are now crediting us, and sending a new modem. Zoooooooom.
J500ANT said:
Yesterday the router packed up. Went to PCW and bought a new router with 4 wired LANs and wifi built in, plus a 8 switch. All plumbed in nicely now - removed the old wifi senders as the new router/sender works better than the previous 2 senders signal wise. All nice & secure too.
But, the reason for my slowish broadbean was that when Telewest upgraded to 10mb they were meant to send us a new modem. They've since done an upgrade to 20mb, still the old modem so its only capable of 4mb. They are now crediting us, and sending a new modem. Zoooooooom.
When the modem comes, google for it. There might be a way of getting it to tell you the speed it's been locked to. Call it paranoia, but the last they you'd want is to be paying for 20Mbit and the modem still being locked to 4Mbit... and yes... it does happen. But, the reason for my slowish broadbean was that when Telewest upgraded to 10mb they were meant to send us a new modem. They've since done an upgrade to 20mb, still the old modem so its only capable of 4mb. They are now crediting us, and sending a new modem. Zoooooooom.
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