Can You Throttle Devices on a Network?

[sammyman]

Is there anyway you can throttle certain devices on a Network? I have an Airport Extreme and would like to prevent certain devices from sucking up too much bandwidth. Is there any program that would allow me to do that?

 

[aussiedj]

Yep, but you need to do it on the modem. There is no way to do it on the airport extreme.

It's called QoS or Quality of Service.

http://www.billion.com/edu/qos/01-What-is-QoS.html

I think that's what your looking for.

 

[trevorlc]

There might be a 3rd party application you can install on the computers directly to limit their throughput, however this may also limit their throughput on the local network for file sharing/print sharing which may really suck.

Beyond that the way its done is usually through QoS as the poster above said, though I do not believe the airport extreme has any advanced abilities for QoS. You might considering looking into getting a router that you can flash to dd-wrt which is a open source router software that gives many advanced features that most routers software do not support from the manufacture. Or you if your into learning a bit you could get one of the business grade routers though that can be quite a bit to dive into if you do not have any prior experience.