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Limit Device Speed with Nighthawk R6260
As the title says, I'm trying to limit the speed of an individual device. I'm running gigabit internet and one of the people living with me is killing ~500gb of data by themselves. I tried using QoS a...
Not possible on stock firmware
Might be time for "the talk" with them.
or you could use access control to limit if they can connect.- I've spoken with them about it, but they're blaming it on the pandemic and that they're working from home. Looking at the network activity though, I don't see how Apex Legends and Twitch streaming have anything to do with an office job... Worst case I'll look into another router. The current one does not have any option for parental controls without an additional payment plan.
I appreciate the responses, though!
- Does that mean there is a specific firmware that would enable me to use bandwidth limiting? Or is this something I would need a raspberry pi for?
