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Are there any routers that let you divide bandwidth.?
Basically, I am a gamer, my family uses a shitty cheap (my guess is that it wasn't more than 40 dollars at the time) 2-3 year old router to split the signal between our computers. Every time when they start watching some crap online I start getting horrendous lag (ping spikes to 200-500 ms, i get packet loss and choke), tweaking the current router was just hopeless, QoS helped a bit but its still awful (i don't lag as much but i still get persistent packet choke)
Can anyone recommend me a good router (preferably under 100 dollars, but I am willing to go up to 150 if necessary) that will let me set bandwidth quotas for different computers on it (ie. set 1024kbps down and 96kbps up for them (their two laptops, trust me, thats more than they really need) and the remainder for my PC)?
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
Dividing bandwidth should be a feature of QoS. If you your router has QoS but does not allow quotas, your router does indeed suck. If you get a router that supports DD-WRT and are willing to flash its firmware, it has a button labeled, "optimize for gaming" which will probably do you some good. Routers that support Tomato also are ideal since Tomato has QoS that supports quotas.
If your router is old and cheap and you have a good internet connection (5-10Mb/s), your bottleneck might just be your router. This would mean that just about any 300Mb/s router would solve your problem without having to deal with QoS. Also, gaming computers should generally avoid wireless connections since they are slower.