use router as Extender and also use data allowance

[DjSingh]

Hello Everyone,
as my title stays a little bit
what i'm looking for is

currently my isp provide 200MBPS speed which is equivalent to 25MB /sec. download speed.

whenever I connect my pc directly using LAN Port through my modem router,I get the 25MB /sec. speed and the whole household products get a good speed too...

then my friend started to stay with us in the basement and he's using my internet but I don't want him to use all my bandwidth so I ended up buying a TP-link router (WDR-3600) and I installed gargoyle on it.

I could control his bandwidth with the data allowance of 20GB a week.

but that way my speed drops to 2.5MB /sec. I tried so many things .. including set up the QOS and the priorties and all the things I could find..

I also tried just connecting the tp link to my modem and only connecting my pc using LAN and nothing else... I still was unable to get speed more than 10MB /sec.

So the conclusion I came to was that my router isn't good enough for speed and I don't wanna take risk buying a $200 router for test.

So my question is Can I somehow co-combine the router to my modem so I'm connected through the ISP Modem router ...getting my speed and he can connect through the TPLink ...and also keep the data allowance active for him.

may be acting the router as an extender or something.


Thanks guys for taking time to read my Long post
and big thanks in advance for replying.

[Lantis]

My immediate thought is this.

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ISP --> Modem --> Gargoyle --> basement guest. 
              |
               ---> everyone else

On the gargoyle enforce the guests data limit and place them under a QOS rule (or a quota) with a maximum speed cap of your choosing.
They can't exceed this limit.

This configuration however would mean that gargoyle is only controlling one PC and so many features are kind of redundant. We're just using it as a bottleneck for one user.

You are correct that QOS routing speed is limited by the processing speed of the router.
I have a router that I'd love to test which had a 1.2GHz dual core processor, however my internet connection is only 18Mbit lol

[DjSingh]

well your flow charts explains things how I want
but my question is

can I directly connect router to another router I thought it wasn't an option.
and if I can, how should I connect it... should I connect it wirelessly or wired.


also I don't need to setup QOS because I don't need to control his speed its just the data allowance.

[Lantis]

if you take a cable from the LAN port of the modem into the WAN port of the gargoyle router, and then set the gargoyle to use DHCP Wired, it all should be ok... i think. You might have to change subnets. Not sure.

Let me know how you go i've never done it.

[ericwong]

if you take a cable from the LAN port of the modem into the WAN port of the gargoyle router, and then set the gargoyle to use DHCP Wired, it all should be ok... i think. You might have to change subnets. Not sure.

Let me know how you go i've never done it.

Yes, this would work. This is how I connect my Gargoyle routers in Australia to the supplied Optus cable modem. Have been using it this way for many years. The only trouble is only when someone need port forwarding and I need to configure it on both modem and router but the majority of people don't need it.