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Bnadwidth used per device
Hello xFinity,
I'm trying to know how much bandwidth is used each device and I need to know how I can limit bandwidth per device.
Visitor
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Hello xFinity,
I'm trying to know how much bandwidth is used each device and I need to know how I can limit bandwidth per device.
flatlander3
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3 years ago
You can. You just can't do it with Xfinity gear.
Some mesh network systems have stats per device. Some of them also have vlan capability, and a notion of bandwidth priority (at least in some form), but if you really want to control everything, use a firewall. I don't know of a mesh system that does device throttling directly, but perhaps someone else does.
Netgate (pfsense) or opnsense are free firewall distributions. Then you can throttle per device, see everything historically and in real time, as well as control everything else. It takes a dedicated 64-bit box with at least two Ethernet ports. Get rid of the gateway, for a plain modem (bridge mode), and handle your own WiFi by other means.
You can write a firewall yourself and use linux or BSD, but you'll want to buy the O'Reilly firewall fundamentals book, otherwise Netgate and opnsense have a web interface written already and default settings will keep you out of trouble.
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