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Limiting traffic with Orbi
Is there a way to enforce bandwidth usage for certain devices on my wifi network? I turned on traffic montior but I'm only seeing an option to limit downloads overall, not for specific devices. What I'm trying to accomplish is avoiding my kids eating up all the bandwidth while I'm working during the day.
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Please visit the Orbi with built in cable modem forum:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-with-Built-in-Cable-Modem/bd-p/en-home-orbi-cable
Traffic Meter only reports over all. Theres nothing to limit by device.
kspartx wrote:
Is there a way to enforce bandwidth usage for certain devices on my wifi network? I turned on traffic montior but I'm only seeing an option to limit downloads overall, not for specific devices. What I'm trying to accomplish is avoiding my kids eating up all the bandwidth while I'm working during the day.
No, there is not. Perhaps there are other residential WiFi routers with this capability, but I am not aware of any. There may be rate-limiting software for the kids computers. A quick Google search turned up lots of hits on "limit Windows bandwidth".or "limit Chrome bandwidth".
Sounds good thanks for the info. I will look into that.
