Immy Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 I have a Netgear Nughthawk XR500 with the latest firmware (as of this morning). I need to limit the upload/download limit of a set-top box and other devices at certain times. For the same of example, let's say I have 10Mbps download limit and 1Mbps upload limit from my ISP (that is my line speed). Now for the set-top box, I want to limit it to 200K for upload. To test the settings, I have removed all other devices from my router and no other device will use any upload or download (nothing is connected). I have disabled "Share Excess Bandwidth" in both upload and download options of QoS. The upload limit is set to .2 (200Kbps) for the set-top box. When the upload resumes, the upload traffic from the set-top box creeps up to 0.5/0.6 Kbps (observed via network monitor tab). If I increase the limit to 1MBps, it takes it all and creeps all the way to 1MBps. I have tried changing the anti-bufferbloat options to never also. To test it further, I tried same experiment with my PS4 and XBOX and they show same behaviour. So my question is: Is there a soft-limit of 0.5KBps for upload and download on the router? Thanks, Immy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netduma Alex Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 So you're saying that if you set the bandwidth limit to 0.2MB, it only goes down to 0.5MB? I'm having trouble understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progprogprog Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 If you set upload to 0.29 you should be somewhere very close I've just tried this and got these results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netduma Alex Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 It could go wrong because your bandwidth settings (in the anti-bufferbloat sidebar) are wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immy Posted August 28, 2019 Author Share Posted August 28, 2019 2 hours ago, Netduma Alex said: So you're saying that if you set the bandwidth limit to 0.2MB, it only goes down to 0.5MB? I'm having trouble understanding. If I set upload limit to 0.2MB, it still allows the device to use 0.5MB upload bandwidth. Does this make it clear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted August 28, 2019 Administrators Share Posted August 28, 2019 Double check that you don't have QoS disabled in the Anti-Bufferbloat menu. If that is fine then disable Traffic Proritization to ensure that is not causing it to use more bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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