Throttling YouTube

fruitbat

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Hi,
I feeling like I'm wasting a lot of bandwidth/data due to YouTube being left on. And it's the app of choice for my kids.

Could someone suggest how I throttle it? It's being watched on laptops/Ipad/Apple TV. My network setup is a dlink 2750, and a Apple time capsule. And my line now is 8mb. (Used to be 20mb when I worked from home - but I now see no value in the kids watching in high def downloading at nearly 2mb/sec)

What would be a good router to replace the dlink with to throttle YouTube? I'd like to put a permanent cap in terms of max speed on that site or service.

Thanks
 
I'm using pfsense to limit youtube bandwith to my son's pc and tablet's IP addresses. It works but took some time to set it up.
 
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