WiFi Router Ethernet Port Bandwidth Cap

[aflyingrhino]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm not sure if the title is the proper way to phrase my request but here is the gist.

 

I recently got my Starlink and I have offered to share it with my landlord in order to get the dish in a spot where it would work. Where we live is not in a spot where there are any other options for high speed internet (just basic DSL). The way I plan on sharing it is to plug an ethernet cable from my router into his mesh network. My landlord has a lot of devices and has a lot of people on his network. On the old network when he had a party there was no bandwidth for me. Since this my internet I want to prioritize my devices over his.

 

Is there a way to cap the bandwidth on an ethernet port? If not are there any other solutions that would help me. I have a TP Link Wireless Router AC1750. Thank you.

 

[LIGISTX]

14 minutes ago, aflyingrhino said:

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm not sure if the title is the proper way to phrase my request but here is the gist.

 

I recently got my Starlink and I have offered to share it with my landlord in order to get the dish in a spot where it would work. Where we live is not in a spot where there are any other options for high speed internet (just basic DSL). The way I plan on sharing it is to plug an ethernet cable from my router into his mesh network. My landlord has a lot of devices and has a lot of people on his network. On the old network when he had a party there was no bandwidth for me. Since this my internet I want to prioritize my devices over his.

 

Is there a way to cap the bandwidth on an ethernet port? If not are there any other solutions that would help me. I have a TP Link Wireless Router AC1750. Thank you.

 

Theoretically, yes, but…. No. 
 

To properly load balance, you need a proper firewall/router. Basically all of the consumer grade stuff I have seen that “has the option” of doing this just falls on its face and limits things on a crappy way.

 

What speeds are you getting with starlink? Coming from DSL it should be much faster, theoretically even if they are having a party unless literally everyone is playing music on their phones and multiple video streams are going, you will still be fine. Having lots of devices on the network doesn’t affect anything as long as they are not all actually trying to move data to and from the internet; most devices are not actually doing anything unless they are actively being used by someone. 

[aflyingrhino]

2 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Theoretically, yes, but…. No. 
 

To properly load balance, you need a proper firewall/router. Basically all of the consumer grade stuff I have seen that “has the option” of doing this just falls on its face and limits things on a crappy way.

 

What speeds are you getting with starlink? Coming from DSL it should be much faster, theoretically even if they are having a party unless literally everyone is playing music on their phones and multiple video streams are going, you will still be fine. Having lots of devices on the network doesn’t affect anything as long as they are not all actually trying to move data to and from the internet; most devices are not actually doing anything unless they are actively being used by someone. 

For Starlink I'm getting a speeds over 100MB download which have been reliable so far. For DSL it was max 15MB at best when I was still on it but it would constantly drop. Made Zoom calls really rough. I ended up moving my devices to a personal hotspot but speeds were limited there as well as the cell coverage is also not great either.

 

His parties are pretty big. In July he'll have one with a live band. He has a big house and a lot of outdoor space which is why he uses mesh. In his house I've seen at least 3 massive 4k tv's which have nature footage constantly on. I'm not sure if it streams or a local video.

 

My landlord ended up getting a microwave isp but it had data caps. He tried blaming me for hitting the data cap after only a couple days. Which would be a fair accusation due to all the games I download and streaming but I wasn't connected. I have don't know what his data cap.

 

If I can't manage it though my hardware are there any solutions that are practical for home use or another method of accomplish it?

 

 

[LIGISTX]

46 minutes ago, aflyingrhino said:

For Starlink I'm getting a speeds over 100MB download which have been reliable so far. For DSL it was max 15MB at best when I was still on it but it would constantly drop. Made Zoom calls really rough. I ended up moving my devices to a personal hotspot but speeds were limited there as well as the cell coverage is also not great either.

 

His parties are pretty big. In July he'll have one with a live band. He has a big house and a lot of outdoor space which is why he uses mesh. In his house I've seen at least 3 massive 4k tv's which have nature footage constantly on. I'm not sure if it streams or a local video.

 

My landlord ended up getting a microwave isp but it had data caps. He tried blaming me for hitting the data cap after only a couple days. Which would be a fair accusation due to all the games I download and streaming but I wasn't connected. I have don't know what his data cap.

 

If I can't manage it though my hardware are there any solutions that are practical for home use or another method of accomplish it?

 

 

100mb is a solid amount, it would be hard to use that entirely unless your literally streaming 3-4 4k Netflix streams at once, which seems a bit excessive. Music will take almost nothing, YouTube at 1080p I think is like 5 mbps?

 

There is no “simple” way to do it from what I know. You could set up an old PC to be a pfsense firewall and do it in there since that actually works well, but that is getting into the realm of “more work then it’s worth”. 

I would say, just use it for a bit and see if it’s an issue. Maybe you won’t notice any issues, and if you do you can revisit?