Programs that are designed to evenly split BANDWIDTH between router?
Ive searched for a couple so called "bandwidth managers" that are supposed to split bandwidth evenly between people on your router. so one computer would get 50% of bandwidth and the other would get 50%. does any one no of any programs that would successfully do this?
thanks for you help.
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1. There are commercial load balancers(hardware) that work perfectly for this but the cost is much more than what you would spend in a home or small office environment. If your router or wireless router supports QoS, I suggest you enable that and enable it at the computers also. This should help prioritize the packets on your local area network.FroBag76 Asked me to explain more about QoS and how it works a bit. Also if the Linksys WRT54G supports QoS.
QoS is short for Quality of Service. With QoS enabled at your router, switch or wireless router AND at the systems on your network, the router prioritizes the amount of bandwidth based on the type of application.
Examples:
Email, Streaming Video, DirectX Games, and Web browsing
The streaming video would receive more bandwidth from the router in a separate stream and the router would give it priority over the other applications in the list because it requires more bandwidth to work correctly. Next up would be the Direct X game, then general browsing and last would come the email. The router's QoS settings determine which types of network traffic get priority and allocate the overall bandwidth accordingly. All of the applications will still work.
Some routers allow you to assign higher priorities to specific applications Overiding the default priorities. I recommend against setting these manually.
For a more in - depth look at QoS please visit the link in the source section. Second Link is for the Router Manual.
The Linksys WRT54G supports both WIRED and Wireless QoS implementations. See page 16 of the manual for your router for instructions to enable or disable.
Your router also supports Flow Control, so you can limit the amount of bandwidth by computer using that feature.
See page 17.
2. It is likely that your router has functions built into it's firmware to do this for you. What make and model is the router? Have you looked into it's browser page? If not, "http://192.168.1.1" should take you to it. Programs typically wont help to balance the load. The router has to be what distributes your bandwidth to the clients connected to it in this case.
3. you can try a product like this
