Bandwidth Management

[Bluefinllama]

Soooooo, it boils down to the fact that there are 6 people under one roof all accessing the internet <== I believe you are able to see where the problem originates. I will be getting 20mbps VDSL soon (need to choose a modem between the 2 Zyxel routers offered by Axxess or the Telkom Pace). but one of my biggest problems will still be the hogs under the roof.

Needless to say, I would like a way to manage the bandwidth so that someone can't hog it all. At the moment I'm using a TP-Link TD-W8960N which has been doing this not too shabbily for what was spent on it although it is a bit lacking. My question is: which of the VDSL modems would you suggest and how should I then go about routing the traffic? I was thinking about getting a MikroTik RouterBOARD 2011UAS-2HnD. Would that do the job? Would you rather suggest any alternative method?

I appreciate the advice

I have a budget of +- R3000 in total for the device/s.

 

[shadow_man]

Soooooo, it boils down to the fact that there are 6 people under one roof all accessing the internet <== I believe you are able to see where the problem originates. I will be getting 20mbps VDSL soon (need to choose a modem between the 2 Zyxel routers offered by Axxess or the Telkom Pace). but one of my biggest problems will still be the hogs under the roof.

Needless to say, I would like a way to manage the bandwidth so that someone can't hog it all. At the moment I'm using a TP-Link TD-W8960N which has been doing this not too shabbily for what was spent on it although it is a bit lacking. My question is: which of the VDSL modems would you suggest and how should I then go about routing the traffic? I was thinking about getting a MikroTik RouterBOARD 2011UAS-2HnD. Would that do the job? Would you rather suggest any alternative method?

I appreciate the advice

I have a budget of +- R3000 in total for the device/s.

PC running PFSense (BSD) or the simple option is a router that can run something like Gargoyle or OpenWRT.

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/doku.php?id=screenshots

 

[Tinuva]

The R999 Zyxel offered by Axxess (great VDSL router btw for the price) has QoS (aka bandwidth management) built in. Thing is, I have a mikrotik RB570G which dials up my interwebs so no need for it on the Zyxel, but I have seen it in the webui and it can even match layer7 protocols (most games) and nntp (news servers) but not torrents. Or you can just create a garbage queue that is limited, and then match the important traffic types into higher priority pipes ect.

That said, I prefer my RB750G for traffic management, not as easy as the Zyxel look, but far more advanced and it has been serving me well.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

PC running PFSense (BSD) or the simple option is a router that can run something like Gargoyle or OpenWRT.

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/doku.php?id=screenshots

The R999 Zyxel offered by Axxess (great VDSL router btw for the price) has QoS (aka bandwidth management) built in. Thing is, I have a mikrotik RB570G which dials up my interwebs so no need for it on the Zyxel, but I have seen it in the webui and it can even match layer7 protocols (most games) and nntp (news servers) but not torrents. Or you can just create a garbage queue that is limited, and then match the important traffic types into higher priority pipes ect.

That said, I prefer my RB750G for traffic management, not as easy as the Zyxel look, but far more advanced and it has been serving me well.

Both good options. I would say Mikrotik solution if you're not into DIY and pfSense if you maybe have an old PC lying around and you don't mind spending a bit of time on the project.