I need to control the bandwidth of a pc sharing wireless connection to my router?

Question

I have a Belkin Wireless G Plus MIMO Router (F5D9230-4 ).

My pc is connected to it via ethernet, while another laptop inside the house is connected wirelessly.

I need to control the bandwidth the laptop uses, without installing any software in THAT computer (like netlimiter).

Is there a way to accomplish that?

Answer 1

Well, unless your router has that built in (yours doesn't there are some that do) you will have to use a "gateway" to control bandwidth. You can setup a cheap linux gateway with shorewall or similar controls.

Basically you have to run the traffic through a SERVER of some sort to control bandwidth, unless that function is built into the routers firmware (in which case the router is a bandwidth shaping server.)

The best solutions are hardware bandwidth controllers
like http://www.netequalizer.com/ (expensive but they work).or router/AP controls. http://www.netequalizer.com/apeq.htm
Routers that support dd-wrt will also allow bandwidth control.

Otherwise every software solution will require limits on each computer to be set and that means installing software on each computer in the network.