Is there a way to limit Internet bandwidth on Wi-Fi on a per-user basis?

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next navigate to parental control and block the websites that use your data up. http://screenshots.portforward.com/routers/Dlink/DSL-2750U/Block_Website.jpg

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Posted 2013-04-07T06:07:10.340

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I also use those website, if I do this they won't open for me too .Is there any reliable Windows program for limiting bandwidth for other computers? – Umer Farooq – 2013-04-07T06:36:50.123

haven't used it but you could give this a shot http://www.netlimiter.com/

– dashboard – 2013-04-07T06:39:31.130

Doesn't work properly in my case. Any good working alternative – Umer Farooq – 2013-04-07T07:15:58.837

How to set QOS on dlink router – Umer Farooq – 2013-04-07T07:40:10.540

QOS on your router won't help. By the time the packets have reached the router, the earliest that QOS on your router could do anything, it's already too late because the packets have already consumed your inbound bandwidth. – David Schwartz – 2014-03-11T07:03:50.053

@DavidSchwartz I disagree with it - particularly for the given protocols. The router still controls the speed of the outbound connection, so it is quite practical to slow this down - and this slowdown will be mirrored by the constrained WAN link. I know Youtube uses TCP and I suspect Netflix does as well, making it ideally suited for shaping and QOS limiting. – davidgo – 2014-04-10T06:58:00.750

@davidgo I don't understand what you disagree with. You are correct that it is possible in theory for a router to control inbound traffic by adjusting outbound traffic. However, that's not what QOS is.

– David Schwartz – 2014-04-11T23:34:25.010

@DavidSchwartz I think it may come down to semantics as to exactly how we see the scope of QoS - I see QoS as including dropping packets to reduce the speed of a link. Also, I'm asserting that dropping packets on the inbound link - which QoS can [sometimes] do between the router and client (which is, ofcourse, outbound from the routers POV) will slow down the transfer of the tcp stream and thus slow down the connection. – davidgo – 2014-04-12T00:02:29.447

@davidgo You realize we're talking about a guy who has a SoHo DLink WiFi router, right? What high-end Enterprise stuff might be capable of isn't exactly relevant. (Also dropping inbound packets just makes things worse since those packets have to get sent again. Using a gradually increasing delay sometimes kind of works.) – David Schwartz – 2014-04-12T00:09:50.767

@DavidSchwartz I only use SoHo equipment that works with OpenWRT and DD-WRT, so my expectations might be a bit unreasonable. I did not see you were talking about a "dlink router", which presumably was to be read as implying dlink router with default firmware. I agree that you are probably unlikely to be able to make a significant difference with QoS on something as limited as a dlink router running default firmware. – davidgo – 2014-04-12T00:17:33.517

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?action=printpage%3Btopic=14407.0 this should be your answer regarding using your router to do the work – dashboard – 2013-04-07T06:25:40.200

2You need to do this on the router, your version of Windows is almost irrelevant. You might want to post your router model if you are looking for serious answers rather then general background info. – davidgo – 2014-04-10T06:59:01.970

Is there a way to limit Internet bandwidth on Wi-Fi on a per-user basis?

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