Limit Bandwidth on Router???

I'm on a router with a couple of other guys. Is it possible to limit how much bandwidth they use?

 

AFAIK you'll need hardware that's substantially more sophisticated than a standard router.

Although, I'm sure there's a way to setup a linux server to limit bandwidth to certain workstations on the network.

 

SkyLynx? what? make a linux serv just to "limit bandwith" i dnt know what cheap router u have seen that u cant limit bandwith

Jay05 what router do u have?

 

This was discussed on Tom's Hardware:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/network/Bwidth-limiting-home-network-ftopict3322.html

They come to the same conclusion that I do. A stock router does not give you the option of limiting bandwidth by ip. So you can flash modded firmware to a linksys WRT54G or you can setup a very cheap linux server.

OR if you find that they're hogging bandwidth on P2P or torrents, then disable the ports.

 

on my stock linksys wrt54g i could limit other users bandwith

 

I'm very surprised by that... how would go about limiting bandwidth to individual users with you out-of-the-box WRT54G?

For that kind of functionality you need to flash to the Alchemy Firmware... AFAIK.