Limit User Internet Bandwidth on DD-WRT Router

DD-WRT

This tutorial will show you how to setup bandwidth control on DD-WRT (Free Version). Note: this tutorial using D-Link DIR-300 rev A1 as wireless router (DD-WRT v24-sp2 rev 13064).

1. Download WRT Script Generator here. (Freeware).

2. Extract wrt54-script-generator.7z enter the password 1234567890 and open WRT54SG.ex

3. Change language to English

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4. Click Launch Script Wizard (Top Left Button)

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5. Enter your Router IP address in local network

6. Enter total download speed

7. Enter total upload speed and click Next (right bottom arrow button)

8. Skip Step 2 – Change Time To Live (TTL) values of packets that are traveling through your computer and click Next

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*note: skip this step

9. Add users from your network to the list by click on the column and choose Add new user. In this step I will control internet bandwidth based on IP address range but you can set it per IP address, IP group, MAC Address, Port, Port Range or Layer 7

10. Enter DL Rate (Download Rate), DL Ceil (Maximum Download Rate), UL Rate (Upload Rate), UL Ceil (Maximum Upload Rate), Priority, TCP Limit, and UDP Limit and click Check button and then Next

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11. You can add more than one user rules by clicking the column and set it up like step before

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12. Click Generate button

13. Script will generated successfully

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14. Copy the script

15. Open your router IP address on browser and login to DD-WRT

16. On DD-WRT click Administration > Commands

17. Paste the script on the Text Box and click Save Firewall

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18. Reboot router

19. Done, you can test the internet speed using Speedtest