Home Network Traffic Shaping

TetraSky · September 17, 2013

Hi, I've been informed that my brother will be living in the apartment next door starting next month (much to my chagrin) and I will be forced to share my Internet connection with him, is there a way to make it so that out of my 20/10 Mbps connection, only half (or less) of it goes to him, while I still retain all of it with higher priority?

My router is the Netgear WNDR3700v3, it's DD-WRT compatible but currently has the stock firmware, if possible I'd like to stay with the stock firmware but if it's not possible with it I will gladly change.

I tried looking at the QoS, but all that was there was just priority from low to high and upload shaping for everybody, nothing about maximum download speed for specific devices, which is what I'm looking for.

Bonsai99 · September 17, 2013

Check if there is a firmware update available, they might have added more QoS options. If not your best bet is to set yourself to high priority and him to low and throttle his upload speed. I have a brother that I have to share an internet connection with as well and it is fairly irritating when you are playing a game and all of a sudden your ping goes through the roof.

TetraSky · September 17, 2013

I'm already on the latest firmware. I searched around in the meantime and found

http://www.howtogeek.com/70659/how-to-give-your-computers-network-traffic-priority-with-dd-wrt/

Which seems to be what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure if I can set those QoS uplink/downlink for specific MAC addresses or if it's all around. Anyone can shed a light on this before I attempt to possibly brick my router? (Also, which build should I take ? Mini or Mega seems to be the only two available to me)

Bonsai99 · September 17, 2013

I'm already on the latest firmware. I searched around in the meantime and found

http://www.howtogeek.com/70659/how-to-give-your-computers-network-traffic-priority-with-dd-wrt/

Which seems to be what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure if I can set those QoS uplink/downlink for specific MAC addresses or if it's all around. Anyone can shed a light on this before I attempt to possibly brick my router? (Also, which build should I take ? Mini or Mega seems to be the only two available to me)

Yes you can set specific restrictions for each MAC address.

TetraSky · September 17, 2013

Alright, installed DD-WRT Mega, now in the QoS, I'm a little stumped, unless I'm blind and can't see the obvious, but can I not create more than one QoS ? Is it really just a single one managing all the MAC addresses? Can't I put like 5Mbps for one MAC address, 15Mbps for yet another, etc? Is it really limited to a single one?

As I've tested it, on the picture I've limited myself to 5Mbps (more or less), which worked according to speedtest, but if it's only a single speed for all, it's kind of... disappointing.

Can alway exclude myself from it, but wasn't exactly what I wanted... Oh well, everyone get 5Mbps, I stay at 20Mbps, fair enough I guess for freeloaders.

Edit : nvm, exempting doesn't work, I'm limited to 5Mbps with those settings. What am I doing wrong?