Hello everyone, and welcome again
In this tutorial, we will learn to control Internet Bandwidth and Speed over Local Network
As said in my previous video, if you have assigned permanent or fixed IP addresses
to your home, or work computers and devices, then managing bandwidth becomes much easier
As you can see in my DHCP client list that, I have applied fixed IP addresses to all my
office computers, and two of mobile devices that I own. The rest of the devices which will get connected will have a least time IP addresses
Once you assign permanent IP addresses to your network devices, you can easily control
that how you want to distribute the speed between them by applying IP address ranges
Do remember, this tutorial is just for information purpose as different routers are configured differently
This video will just give you a brief information about controlling bandwidth and Internet Speed
on a specific router. You can read documentation of your router for further reference
So let's see, how to control bandwidth and Internet Speed among your network
I have total 9 computers, 2 Android mobiles, and 1 additional WiFi router in my network
to whom I have applied fixed IP addresses, ranging from 100 to 111
I want, a maximum of 30 devices may get connected to my network, so I ranged it by assigning
Start and End IP addresses. Basically, I want to limit the Internet Speed over all these devices, and this feature is
very useful especially for Internet Cafes, where you would like to distribute an equal
Internet Speed to all the devices. But what happens when a customer starts downloading huge files
He occupy the entire speed thus slowing down Internet for others. The maximum download speed offered to my Internet connection is, 12 Mbps
So, what I want is, a maximum of 4 Mbps speed for my server computer, and 1 Mbps each for
all the other devices that I own, which are 11 in total, and for the rest of devices
which get connected to my network, can get a maximum of 2 Mbps in total
To configure this, I click on Bandwidth Control section of my router
To turn on Speed Control, I first check this feature, Enable Bandwidth Control
Then I have to specify that either I am using an ADSL connection, or any other type of Internet connection
Then the maximum upload and download speed that I want to receive from one port
The Egress Bandwidth is Upload Speed, and Ingress Bandwidth is Download Speed
Here I enter the maximum values according to the speed I am receiving from my Internet
service provider. Click the Save button to store these settings in Router Configuration
The next important part is, creating and setting a rule list for your network devices
Click the Rule List, and here you need to specify the Upload and Download Speed rules
over the IP addresses. If you don't create a rule list, then each device connected to your network will always
be using the maximum speed that you had specified in Control Settings
So, to add a rule, I click on Add New. The most important part in Add Rule section is specifying the IP address range
If you want to apply this particular rule to a single device, then you only need to
enter a single IP address in the first field, and leave the second field blank
Like, I want to apply a maximum of 2 Mbps Upload Speed, and 4 Mbps of Download Speed
for the device name server. So, I enter the corresponding IP address in first field, and leave the second field blank
I don't want to specify any specific ports and protocol, so I leave them default
In Egress Max Bandwidth Speed column, I enter 2048, as I have to mention the speed in Kbps
and for Ingress, I enter 4096 as maximum speed. Then I click the Save to store this particular entry
Following the same method, I will add different entries for all the devices and IP address ranges
You only need to take care of one thing here that, as you can see, I am specifying individual
entries for each IP address, instead of entering a start and end IP range
As I said earlier, I want to distribute a maximum of 1 Mbps each to all the 11 devices
that I own in my network. So, if say that, I enter 100 to 111 in the IP address range, and specify a limit of 11
Mbps, then what will happen is, if any of device that fall in this IP address range
start downloading a huge file will get a speed of 11 Mbps, and speed on other devices may
get slower. Your router will try to distribute 11 Mbps to the connected devices according to their usage
If one device is running, it will get 11 Mbps, if two devices are running and both are downloading
stuff from internet, then speed will automatically get divided, but it will not be accurate
and if more devices get connected in the same range, they may face a speed issue
You can finally see my chart here, where I have allotted 1 Mbps each to all the devices
and for the rest a maximum of 19 devices that can connect to my network will get a total
of 2 Mbps shared internet speed
As you can see, for the rest of the devices, I have specified an IP range, which means
it doesn't matter how many total devices get connected in this range, all of them will
get a maximum of 2 Mbps speed, thus not affecting the speed of my network
Before creating rules, I will suggest you to create a speed plan according to your requirements
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