Bandwidth managment programs

[Kayn]

Hey guys I am asking behalf of my friend who needs to find a program to manage the bandwidth. He does not have the best internet and when gaming he gets massive lag spikes because other people are either watching a video or just searching the web. He wants a program that can work with windows 8 so he can direct most of the bandwidth to him so there will be less of a lag spike when he is playing games. I would help him on this but I have no idea about this subject.

[Darell3]

Hey guys I am asking behalf of my friend who needs to find a program to manage the bandwidth. He does not have the best internet and when gaming he gets massive lag spikes because other people are either watching a video or just searching the web. He wants a program that can work with windows 8 so he can direct most of the bandwidth to him so there will be less of a lag spike when he is playing games. I would help him on this but I have no idea about this subject.

I dont think you can conserve bandwidth for a certain computer, because i assume its running all from 1 router. Man, gaming with lagg spikes? dem feels bro. Mines worst, have 10devices connected to my router but no lagg spikes. Hmm weird.

[Kayn]

I dont think you can conserve bandwidth for a certain computer, because i assume its running all from 1 router. Man, gaming with lagg spikes? dem feels bro. Mines worst, have 10devices connected to my router but no lagg spikes. Hmm weird.

I don't know that much in this department but I was sure that there are programs somewhere on the interwebz that direct more bandwidth to a computer but I have no idea really. Yeah I have a bunch of devices connected to my internet but I have relatively fast internet 50/25. I'm pretty sure that he has like something along that lines of 2down and .5up.

[Darell3]

I don't know that much in this department but I was sure that there are programs somewhere on the interwebz that direct more bandwidth to a computer but I have no idea really. Yeah I have a bunch of devices connected to my internet but I have relatively fast internet 50/25. I'm pretty sure that he has like something along that lines of 2down and .5up.

Im guessing if its gonna give more 'bandwidth' it would have to be router wise.

[mrenusso]

We need to know what medium he uses to connect to his router (WiFi, Ethernet, Powerline, Voodoo Magic, etc.) because the reasons of lag spikes change dramatically from say, ethernet to WiFi.

Second, a program on a computer of a network will not be able to change the QoS on a router (except certain specific cases but i'll skip that for now). If there's one place where bandwidth allocations and packet prioritizing can be done, it's in a router (but expensive ones that you never get with your ISP, haha).

Now, lag spikes usually are resulting of a problem at the Data link layer, meaning either his WiFi is perturbated or his modem/router/switch can't keep up with the ethernet traffic.

[iain]

Some routers enable you to do this. ddwrt dose.