Router/Switch that support QoS throttling

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#73707 20-Dec-2010 13:53

I am looking for a good router/switch that will support QoS throttling, not just QoS prioritizing, i want be able to set down/up bandwidth/IP group, maximum connections/ip group and of course it should have ARP function as well.

so far i am aware that these feature won't normally available at consumer level products, i am currently search for one even it is a bit pricy!

Any suggestions？
(sorry if this is a double post, it appears the search function on geekzone is not working for me.)

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Snowflake

#419446 20-Dec-2010 14:13

is there a budget in mind?

I know that the SonicWall products used to be able to enforce "bps" levels for services that were defined. That might be one option.

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#419458 20-Dec-2010 14:38

thats what i meant..products that SonicWall offers are too expensive for home-user.

I am now looking at Opensource firmware Tomato/DD-WRT that hopefully will do the trick,
i just need to find the right model.

anyone had experience with those?

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#419464 20-Dec-2010 15:02

Get a Mikrotik board such as a RB450.

There is a learning curve to RouterOS but not much it can't do.

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#419506 20-Dec-2010 16:22

webnation: thats what i meant..products that SonicWall offers are too expensive for home-user.

I am now looking at Opensource firmware Tomato/DD-WRT that hopefully will do the trick,
i just need to find the right model.

anyone had experience with those?

Do you need wireless N and gigabit?

If not: Linksys WRT54GL or Asus WL-520GU are good choices
If so: Asus RT-N16 is a good choice

I would look at the Tomato USB and Tomato RAF versions over Tomato (original) and DD-WRT. TomatoUSB does not have a per ip bandwidth limiter but RAF does.. however with good enough classification and rules you probably don't need per ip/mac limiting imo.

TomatoUSB firmware
http://tomatousb.org/

Tomato RAF
http://victek.is-a-geek.com/tomato.html

QoS Guide for Tomato
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60304

Typical QoS Example
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showpost.php?p=357556&postcount=135

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#419527 20-Dec-2010 16:39

thanks for all the good info! especially those guides and examples, will just save me alot of time.

So far i don't care much about gigabit LAN or wireless N, so will check out all the above models you mentioned.

Tomato seems really nice with real-time monitor and graphs, however if i apply a QoS control for all p2p downloads for example, will too much connections attempts from a single computer makes the router nonresponse or overheating?

other-words: performance issues?

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#419727 20-Dec-2010 22:32

It's pretty solid haven't been able to overwhelm it but if you have many users the connection limits, timeouts etc are all either configurable via web GUI or iptables commands/scripts.