Throttle certain MAC Addresses on network?

[Keudn]

I have family members who use Netflix and Youtube religiously, and with a shitty 5mbps connection any video streaming uses every little bit of that connection, making it impossible for anyone else to do anything on the network. I've noticed that Netflix in particular seems to take the highest priority on the network and always takes all the bandwidth it needs, regardless of what is going on on other computers. If I am downloading something my download slows to a crawl while their video loads perfectly fine. I am the only one on ethernet, everyone else is on wifi. So my question is, is there anyway to limit the bandwidth a MAC address gets? Could you do this through QoS and limit video streaming to 1mbps? Would it be possible to just limit the speed of the wifi connection to the point where it slows down their video streaming? Any and all suggestions for how to keep video streaming from completely hogging our connection would be great!

[Atlantisman]

Depends on your router, and you would apply the QoS by IP address, not MAC address.

[Askew]

If they stream Netflix on a PC using Silverlight it's possible to manually set the streaming bitrate and then hide it again.

[Keudn]

Depends on your router, and you would apply the QoS by IP address, not MAC address.

I have the Asus RT-n56u and ive researched it but idk how to set up QoS for netflix or youtube

 

If they stream Netflix on a PC using Silverlight it's possible to manually set the streaming bitrate and then hide it again.

It's mostly on our apple tv so no go

[Darren]

Who pays the internet bill? Pretty silly to do this if you're living with mummy and daddy when they pay for it...

[Broseephus]

I hope no one helps this kid torment his family by providing him the know-how to throttle their entertainment.