Hello, So basically I live in Australia, where we have horrible speeds (until we get optic fiber, which isn't too far away thank god), But i have a 10 year old Brother that is constantly on his laptop playing his damn agar.io and other stupid games, while having YouTube open and watching videos, is there any way i can limit his laptop to only a little bit of bandwidth so i stop having such a slow connection?
My router is a Netgear D7000 btw
Basically you need a router which supports some form of traffic shaping. If your router supports a custom firmware like dd-wrt or openwrt then you can give that a go. It should be able to do it (openwrt especially) but I haven't tried it myself. It may not be super user friendly though. I've configured traffic shaping before on pfsense and while it wasn't rocket science it's not quite as simple as you may imagine it should be.
Alright, I'll look into that and let you know how i go. Thanks for such a quick reply!
Well sadly it appears that openwrt isn't available for my router, guess i might have to just wait for optic fiber, which is hopefully only a few months away
Does the D7000 not support QoS? If so you should be able to configure it to prioritize traffic on the ports you want before any others.
It supports QoS, but i have no idea how to work that, and from what i read it's pretty unreliable