E2500 Guest Network Bandwitdh Throttle?
Greetings,
I currently use a E2500 router for my home network. I have setup the Wireless guest Network for my downstairs Tenant while he is out of work so he can still have some internet. The problem however is that often the guest network will take up 90% of my 55mb/sec bandwidth, leaving none for the primary network. Is there a way for me to Throttle the amount of bandwidth the Guest network can use? Say alot 10mb/sec for Guest access only, and leave the rest for our main network?
Any help with regards to this would be very helpful as even though my tenant is down on his luck, if this continues I'll have to remove the guest network completely.
Thank you.
it's ashame theres no way to restrict the Guest Network, I would think thats an excellent addition to Future routers.
I know he was using about 90% of the bandwidth by the following: we have 3 computers on the main network, 2 wired, 1 wireless. i have a bandwidth download ability of ~55mb/sec with him online on the guest network my wired main computer was suddenly getting ~0.5mb/sec. I unhooked the other wired computer and the wireless devise on the main network and re-tested and still only had 0.5mb/sec
so the guest network had takin over 90% of the net and the router was not re-assigning equal priority to both networks. I had to turn off the guest network and then back on 30seconds later, and I was suddenly back up to full bandwidth.
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