Limit internet speed

[ajnl]

Is it possible to limit internet speed to a specific devices connected to my router, based on mac address?

 

My router: Netgear R6300

 

OS: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/18/12) mega

 

 

If you need more info, let me know.

[UAdave]

QoS by MAC: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service

 

This may possibly help too: http://markmaunder.com/2011/01/26/how-to-reliably-limit-the-amount-of-bandwidth-your-room-mate-or-bad-office-colleague-uses/

[SunLight]

if you have iptables and tc Linux commands then you can certainly do it via ssh or telnet, but of course you can really limit upload, not download speed, because stuff incoming from outside can saturate your network before it reaches your router imho.

 

I was trying this in the past while playing ET in order to block other pcs but really you can limit only upload

 

If you don't want to do it from the router you could redirect the traffic to another pc via arp spoofing and limit the traffic from there but firewalls might block this because it's regarded as an attack

 

edit:

basically what I did was adding an iptables rule using the --set-mark option then with tc filter and handle, all packets marked went to a lower priority queue, there are many tutorials around, but maybe I can find the script I used back then

 

edit2:

actually you might not need iptables if you can match via mac address on tc

Edited June 29, 2014 by SunLight