Routers with good priority settings?

[SketchSlayer]

Well the basic idea of this is I pay the largest amount of the net bill here and my flatmate lets call him E pays the rest, E has a partner who has some kids and with the current router set up I ahve been blocked from router access (to use settings such as MAC filter to stop E's partner's kids from ****ing up what I'm doing with their minecraft and 360 usage smashing bandwidth).

I'm looking into routers that could set both E and myself as equal highest priority where if both of us are trying to use high downspeeds it would split the bandwidth between us before the lower priority users (his partner and her kids) and would let it be set so priority ques are set maybe even with max down limits per week before lowering priority.

I'm planning on sorting the issue with him in a civil way suggesting we get a new router with such capabilities and set it in a fair way rather than just saying **** your partner and her kids, you can pay the net bill as I'm unwilling to now and I can survive without it.

Advice is rather useful, thanks in advance.

 

[sammyrg]

More info please

Before I could really help I would need to know a few more things.

What speed of Internet connection do you have?

What router do you currently use?

What kind of Internet traffic do you do? Besides the Xbox and minecraft you already listed. (Just Facebook and email, Netflix or other streaming, torrents)

 

[Cromewell]

If you don't mind getting into it, you can use Linux with bridges, tc and iptable rules to filter stuff. There's a giant guide here http://lartc.org/howto/

edit: I should add, it's not very easy if you aren't somewhat familiar with Linux and networking. A packetshaper could probably do what you are looking for.

 

[SketchSlayer]

Before I could really help I would need to know a few more things.

What speed of Internet connection do you have?

What router do you currently use?

What kind of Internet traffic do you do? Besides the Xbox and minecraft you already listed. (Just Facebook and email, Netflix or other streaming, torrents)

Speed is varied from 250kbps-1mbps max down speeds for the connection with a single user

The router is some terrible netcomm thing fom a fair few years ago and the traffic is rather varied, steam,xbox,3 or so phones at times,kids ipads, whatever the flatmates download movies through (probably some torrent engine or another).

the bulk of us watch youtube stuff time to time and some stream video from sites like gorrila video or whatever it is (to watch foreign shows that are not on here).

and the guy who suggested linux, none of us run linux machines, two of us are gamers so we kinda rely on windows and emulating windows would rape memory usage and the guys partner/kids stuff is apple with all the apple kinda crap so yeah none of us would know much about linux (I'd probably know it best as the place I'm doing work experience for uses linux mint on the machines they plan to sell)

Ideally I'm after one that the base software it runs would have good enough priority settings or QoS settings that allow an equal spread of usage at the bare minimum so that it could at least be set so no one user could hog all the bandwidth.

I also feel having a router capable of good QoS settings will be helpful when I move since I'll probably be flatting with people round my age so more than likely a lot of internet usage all round then too.

 

[sammyrg]

I would go crazy with an internet connection that slow! now I understand your issues on speed.. It sounds like the torrent video downloads is your biggest problem. where you tube can but normally doesn't play that big of a deal.

I used to have a D-link dir-655 that had nice qos settings that can help with some of those issues. But the first thing I would do is stop the video downloads it can get you into legal troubles.

As far as the Linux suggestion goes I think he was meaning a new computer that you setup as a network appliance. You can download firewall software like m0n0wall and pf-sense that are preconfigured Linux firewalls that support QOS and other fun features.

 

[Cromewell]

As far as the Linux suggestion goes I think he was meaning a new computer that you setup as a network appliance. You can download firewall software like m0n0wall and pf-sense that are preconfigured Linux firewalls that support QOS and other fun features.

Essentially, yes. Though you can do it without any specialized firewall software.

 

[SketchSlayer]

I would go crazy with an internet connection that slow! now I understand your issues on speed.. It sounds like the torrent video downloads is your biggest problem. where you tube can but normally doesn't play that big of a deal.

I used to have a D-link dir-655 that had nice qos settings that can help with some of those issues. But the first thing I would do is stop the video downloads it can get you into legal troubles.

As far as the Linux suggestion goes I think he was meaning a new computer that you setup as a network appliance. You can download firewall software like m0n0wall and pf-sense that are preconfigured Linux firewalls that support QOS and other fun features.

Another thread I made that ended up moot as I moved but the information is appreciated for future reference (long as this site isn't going away any time soon)

the torrenting wasn't mine anyway so I wouldn't be taking the fall, twas the flatmates as the couple I lived with both loved movies and hated pauing for them (didn;t help that they both wanted to watch it in 4k so dled the largest possible torents for those things >.<)
Personally I only use torrents offered by free software providers and the like (I think it was open office that made me dl bit torrent from memory) as it has the more stable style of dl similar to steam where disconnects don't screw it up.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions though as any information gained through this will help in the future as no doub some future flatmate will be like this again :/