I have a very high quality business ISP that currently provides me 50gb per month. I run a web design company from home, and this has been plenty for me - never exceeded the limit, until my son started playing online games with Steam. Now he seems to use more bandwidth in a day than I do in a week.
Now I am looking into ways of sorting this out. Obvious one - 'You cant play online anymore' but he likes to play with his friends online. So I believe it is possible to do this with the QoS feature of my router - which is a Billion BiPac7800N.
It looks like I can assign different rates to different ports and IP addresses and protocol and direction. SO there should be some way of doing it. Anyone done this? Any tips for me?
Cheers
/j
Does Steam Throttle Download Speeds
Steam Throttle Download Speed
Change your download region in steam. ISPs heavily throttle speed usage, and throw on ridiculous data caps. Then I do get those speeds, at least on steam since I can choose which server to. I am confused as to why you'd want to limit the download rate to 20Kb/s. Either your Steam games are tiny or you are a really really patient man. M2TW at 20Kb/s would take weeks to download. Just start the Steam download before bed time or before you leave for work.