[OT] Need to Cap Network Bandwidth for a Computer

[JoeHill]

James Knott wrote: 

> Stephen wrote:
> > On a computer on my home network, an Internet game seems to try and
> > use all the bandwidth it can get.
> >
> > Is there a way to limit the bandwidth for the one computer without
> > touching that computer?
> >
> > I checked my router and there seems to be no options for that.
> >  
> 
> Consumer grade devices wouldn't have that capability.  Business grade
> switches & routers would have quality of service settings that would do
> that sort of thing.

The Tomato firmware for Linksys routers has qos settings.

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J
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