Another step-by-step guide on how to control and limit the bandwidth for devices connected to your home network. This tutorial will show you how to do it on a TP-Link TL-WR841N Router. It’s a Router that was given to me by Globe Broadband, an ISP from the Philippines.

If you want to limit or control the speed of your WiFi or wired connection for a number of client devices or users in your local area network, this guide may help.

So, if Globe Broadband gave you a TP-Link TL-WR841N Router, this guide should work for you.

This guide will be useful in a situation where a single Globe Broadband Internet connection is shared among several WiFi-capable devices like Android phones, tablets, and iPads, as well as wired devices like desktop computers.

With this guide’s help, you could also slow down the speed of WiFi or wired Torrent downloads, video streaming, and other large file downloads for a specific device or IP address.

Limiting The Bandwidth

Before you start with this guide, make sure you know the Administration Username and Password for your device. But in case you don’t know, I’ve told you the details. See the details below.

TP-Link TL-WR841N Router Admin Login Details:

Username: admin
Password: admin
Login Address: 192.168.0.1

How to Limit Internet Bandwidth of WiFi Users with TP-Link Router TL-WR841N

Before you move on to the first step, make sure that your WiFi or wired network is working as it should. Use a wired connection for this step, and use a static IP address instead of a dynamic IP address from DHCP.

Here is the first step to slow down your Wi-Fi or wired Internet speed.

Step 1: Login as Admin

First, open your browser and go to 192.168.0.1. Your screen should show you a login box.

Use the above information to log in. Once you’re logged in, click on “IP QoS” under “Advanced Settings” on the left side of the screen.

Step 2: Enable and configure IP QoS

This page has the following columns and labels.

• Bandwidth Type
• Bandwidth Apply
• ID
• IP Range
• Mode
• Bandwidth
• Description

These are the fields you need to set up to limit or control the speed or bandwidth of your home internet for different devices and clients on your home network.

Tick the check box labeled Enable IP QoS to turn it ON.

Step 3: Choose Bandwidth Type and Bandwidth (in Kbps)

From the drop-down menu, you should choose either ADSL or Others, depending on the plan you signed up for. You could just pick “Others” and then type in the Internet speed you want.

You could enter 2000 Kbps if you have a 2 Mbps plan (2048 Kbps).

Step 4: Enter an IP Range

This information shows the IP range that should be affected by the settings for the bandwidth limit. Any devices or clients with an IP address that this setting covers should have their speed slowed down.

In my case, I want the setting to apply to all IP addresses from 192.168.0.201 to 192.168.0.254. When my family and guests connect to my TP-Link TL-WR720N Router, they should get these IP addresses automatically.

You could make any choice you want. But since you are the Admin of your Router, I’m pretty sure you don’t want your own settings to affect you. And that you don’t want this setting to affect any of your devices. In this case, you should give your client devices a Static IP Address, which is not in the IP address range you set.

My desktop computer and Android phone are both set to have a Static IP address. For demonstration purposes, I’ve set it up like this:

• Desktop: 192.168.0.101
• Phone: 192.168.0.102

As you can see, the IP range I set above does not include the IP address I chose. This means that the bandwidth limit shouldn’t affect my devices.

Step 5: Set The Speed Mode and Speed

You can choose between two modes with this setting:

• Minimum Bandwidth Guarantee
• Maximum Bandwidth Limit

Minimum Bandwidth Guarantee: This mode should be able to control bandwidth, but it doesn’t set a maximum speed or limit the speed. So any client should be able to use the fastest speed. But this setting should always give you the speed you set as the minimum speed. This means that this is the slowest speed you should offer to clients. Make sure you divide the speed (in Kbps) between the clients in your home network in the right way.

Maximum Bandwidth Limit: In this mode, you can choose the maximum speed limit for each client. So, if you set this to, say, 128 Kbps (just enough to look at Facebook and do a Google search), all clients should have a maximum speed of 128 Kbps. This doesn’t mean that every client will get this speed, though. It depends on how much bandwidth you have for the Internet as a whole. So make sure you divide this up right, taking into account how many clients you have on your home network.

I need to make two rules in this case. One is for my devices, and the other is for my roommates and guests. Since I run the Internet plan and own it, I should get more bandwidth.

So I’ll make two sets of rules and two ranges of IP addresses.

Note: I’ve set MAC address reservation so that DHCP will give me a static IP address.

I’ll set the IP range for my desktop and phone to be from 192.168.0.101 to 102. In your situation, you should use the IDs you have.

Since it’s my first rule, I’ll use the first ID (ID 1) in my case.

Next, I set Mode to Maximum Bandwidth Limit and Bandwidth field to 1000 Kbps. With this, I should be able to get up to 1000 Kbps of speed whenever an app needs it. So if I want to watch a Dubstep or Glitch Hop video on YouTube, I should only be able to do so at a speed of 1000 Kbps.

Then I’ll make a rule for my three roommates and a guest. I’ll give each of my four clients 1000 Kbps, which is the rest of my bandwidth. So I need to fill in ID no. 2 and make another rule.

I set the IP range to 192.168.0.201–204, set the Mode to Minimum Bandwidth Guarantee, and set the Bandwidth to 250 Kbps. Each client will have at least 250 Kbps of bandwidth with this setting. Because I split the 1000 Kbps between four clients, I set it to 250 Kbps. This means that each client should have a speed of at least 250 Kbps, but if there is still bandwidth available and the client needs more bandwidth, it uses the bandwidth that is still available without knowing the maximum.

Note: For this, you should set up your DHCP settings.

Step 6: Set Rule Description

Fill out the Description field so that you will know what the rule set is when you come back to this page or want to change it after a long time.

Step 7: Enable each rule and save

Enable each rule by clicking the “Enable” button, and then click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

Static IP Address Via DHCP

In my case, I should set up my Desktop and Phone with a static IP address that is tied to the MAC address of each device. Media Access Control, or MAC, is how your network device is identified. Even if your DHCP settings give you a dynamic IP address, you can use this information to get a static IP address.

I should set this up on the Router so that I always have the same IP address, even if the Router or my device restarts. Remember that I set up my IP address so that it could only use up to 1000 Kbps of bandwidth. If another client on your network gets this IP address out of the blue, that person would only be able to use up to 1000 Kbps of bandwidth.

So you need to lock your IP address to your MAC address.

Procedures For TL-WR841N

Step 1: Go to Address Reservation page

To do that, navigate to DHCP > Address Reservation, which is under the –Advance. Settings–

Step 2: Create a new rule

To make a new rule, click the “Add New” button. Then put dashes before and after the MAC address of your device.

Enter your IP address. This is the IP address that you have set up to have a limit on the bandwidth.

Change Status to Enabled and click Save. Just do this again for other things. For the changes to take effect, you need to restart the Router.

Note: Go to Settings > About Phone > Status > WiFi MAC Address on your Android device to see what your MAC address is.

All done!

In this video, we are gonna show you how To limit Wifi speed on TP-Link TL-WR841N Router:

It’s a Wrap

That’s how To Limit WiFi Speed on TP-Link TL-WR841N Router for network devices within your local network. It should also work with your devices that are hardwired.

If this guide helped you, please let us know by leaving a comment below. If you have any questions or need more help, feel free to ask them below.

Use your TP-Link TL-WR841N Router with pleasure.