Some stuff » firmware https://blog.yhuang.org here. Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:50:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 poor man’s bandwidth control https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=305 https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=305#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:02:02 +0000 admin http://allegro.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=305 Consumer broadband modems and routers typically cannot deal with a large number of connections from multiple users, and the cheap firmware has no settings to restrict the bandwidth of each user. This is when you resort to the physical layer to help you out.

Solution: Restrict wifi to the really slow 802.11b, maybe even slower, and let the physical layer radio contention fake the effects of fair bandwidth control. Works like a charm, no more dropped connections.

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