Can I limit total bandwidth with Gargoyle?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:31 pm
I need to balance the speed of two wireless gateways, both wired (in parallel) to a Thomson router (in bridge mode) connected to WAN.
I have a total of 5Mbps up / 10 Mbps down through the Thomson router and I want each of the two gateways (and all wireless clients behind it) to have 2.5 Mbps up / 5 Mbps down strict bandwidth limit for WAN.
One of the gateways is Linksys RV082 (the wireless part is done by a third router bridged to it but this is not important here) and it can limit its maximum uplink/downlink WAN bandwidth very well. No problem there.
The other gateway is Linksys WRT54GL and I have not found a way to effectively limit its WAN bandwidth from inside it. It is presently running Tomato but the QoS limits actually seem not to limit anything; the gateway is just grabbing all the bandwidth it can get, no matter what QoS limits I apply from its configuration interface. I was thinking of flashing this gateway with Gargoyle.
I do not need to balance the loads on the LAN side. I just want to make sure that the bandwidth limit I set to the WAN port of the gateway is strictly followed even when more bandwidth is actually available.
Can Gargoyle set a limit to the bandwidth (Mbps) so that the router running Gargoyle will strictly not use any more?
I have a total of 5Mbps up / 10 Mbps down through the Thomson router and I want each of the two gateways (and all wireless clients behind it) to have 2.5 Mbps up / 5 Mbps down strict bandwidth limit for WAN.
One of the gateways is Linksys RV082 (the wireless part is done by a third router bridged to it but this is not important here) and it can limit its maximum uplink/downlink WAN bandwidth very well. No problem there.
The other gateway is Linksys WRT54GL and I have not found a way to effectively limit its WAN bandwidth from inside it. It is presently running Tomato but the QoS limits actually seem not to limit anything; the gateway is just grabbing all the bandwidth it can get, no matter what QoS limits I apply from its configuration interface. I was thinking of flashing this gateway with Gargoyle.
I do not need to balance the loads on the LAN side. I just want to make sure that the bandwidth limit I set to the WAN port of the gateway is strictly followed even when more bandwidth is actually available.
Can Gargoyle set a limit to the bandwidth (Mbps) so that the router running Gargoyle will strictly not use any more?
