limit bandwidth per device with modem?

[tJuggernaut29]

So i live in the country and we have pretty slow DSL. if someone in our house decides to stream netflix or amazon, it runs at as high of resolution as it can and uses up all the bandwidth. this makes it unusable to everyone else. So i was wondering if there was a way to cap the bandwidth by MAC address with the modem or something? any ideas?

 

I have a ZyXEL C2100Z modem with DSL

 

Thanks

[desertcomputer]

In most case no, you need a router with QOS features.

[tJuggernaut29]

8 hours ago, MrUnknownEMC said:

In most case no, you need a router with QOS features.

this modem does have QoS features. so how do i use them to cap bandwidth per device?

[Falconevo]

QoS should let you cap per device, but it will cap based on IP addressing looking at the config page you have provided rather than MAC address.  It also doesn't appear to allow for limiting destination ports which will limit your ability to QoS services rather than destination range(s).

I would go and set static IP's on each device you want to shape as DHCP addressing could change after a lease expires and the QoS rules set may no longer work.  You can set DHCP reservations on the particular MAC addressing if your modem/router combo supports it as not all do rather than setting static IPs.

 

With a 5mbit/1mbit line you are going to really struggle in todays modem bandwidth hungry world.

 

• Start by setting static IPs on devices or use DHCP reservations on MAC addresses if the modem/router supports
• Configure hard downstream and upstream limits from static or DHCP reserveration IPs to and from 0.0.0.0/0 (this is all subnets outside of your LAN)
• Look in to if the modem/router can support limiting based on services or destination ports

Any other ISPs in the area you can use to get more bandwidth?

[tJuggernaut29]

8 hours ago, Falconevo said:

QoS should let you cap per device, but it will cap based on IP addressing looking at the config page you have provided rather than MAC address.  It also doesn't appear to allow for limiting destination ports which will limit your ability to QoS services rather than destination range(s).

here are the options,

what do i choose?

 

[desertcomputer]

1 hour ago, tJuggernaut29 said:

here are the options,

what do i choose?

 

Source IP is your local computer ips (You should give them a permanent DHCP lease) and destination IP can be either netflix ip or everything(0.0.0.0).

[idiocracy]

How many devices you got on the network?

First go into "dhcp reservation" and set up a static ip for all your devices.

Then create the qos rule afterwards, it doesn't look like you can create a rule for the entire network.

DSCP should be set to C4, which should then affect netflix packets. Queue priority can be set to low. Give it a try and see how it works out.

[tJuggernaut29]

On 7/17/2018 at 6:09 PM, MrUnknownEMC said:

Source IP is your local computer ips (You should give them a permanent DHCP lease) and destination IP can be either netflix ip or everything(0.0.0.0).

so i set up a static ip for my pc.

so i go to set it high priority, but it wants me to fill out everything, and says invalid destination ip

what do i put?

[CiscoFan]

Just out of curiousity, are there any faster plans with CenturyLink that you can upgrade to?

[tJuggernaut29]

17 hours ago, droidrzrlover said:

Just out of curiousity, are there any faster plans with CenturyLink that you can upgrade to?

no, im out in the country. that is as fast as we can get.

[CiscoFan]

5 minutes ago, tJuggernaut29 said:

no, im out in the country. that is as fast as we can get.

Oh, alright, I recommend setting static addresses on your devices and use source based addressing QoS on the modem. 

[tJuggernaut29]

6 hours ago, droidrzrlover said:

Oh, alright, I recommend setting static addresses on your devices and use source based addressing QoS on the modem. 

i set up a static ip for my device. now how do i set it to higher priority than other devices?

under the QoS settings, pictured above, i need a whole bunch of info about source and destination ip. what do i put for that?

[CiscoFan]

On 7/25/2018 at 8:05 PM, tJuggernaut29 said:

i set up a static ip for my device. now how do i set it to higher priority than other devices?

under the QoS settings, pictured above, i need a whole bunch of info about source and destination ip. what do i put for that?

You put the static address as the source address and then the destination IP it will be 0.0.0.0. I would recommend putting your device as DSCP EF so you have top priority in your network.