4 Of The Best Ways To Manage Internet Bandwidth To Avoid Lag

This article is intended for entities who are using internet connection in multiple computers like Internet Cafe or Computer Shop or Pisonet or Pisowifi , offices, coffee shop, Hotspots and other related establishments which are badly experiencing high latency or lag that causes migraine to every network administrator and disappointment to each internet users because of poor internet connectivity though you have good internet subscription.

Honestly, it's not how high the download and upload speed you have but what matters most is how you effectively manage the bandwidth based on the number of computers to be connected and the internet demand they wanted. Let's say you have 10Mb both download and upload which could be divided to ten computers 1Mb each respectively. Yes 1Mb is enough to play videos and do surfing the web without other computers grabbing it although you're connected to one network that is because of a proper bandwidth management.

Therefore, in this article I will going to list four of the best methods in managing internet bandwidth in order to avoid lag, buffering and slow loading. Here are the following in no particular order:

PfSense
It is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more. It's a computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. It is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make dedicated firewall or router for a network and has been noted for its reliability.

Mikrotik RouterOS
It has all the necessary features for an ISP-routing, firewall, bandwidth management, wireless access point, backhautl link, hotspot gateway, VPN server and more. It's the operating system of RouterBoard hardware.

Kerio Control
It is a unified threat management firewall that features intrusion prevention, content filtering, activity reporting, bandwidth management, and virtual private networking. Kerio Control is available as a software, virtual, or hardware appliance.

OPNSense
It is also an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build freeBSD based firewall and routing platform. The feature set of OPNsense includes high-end features such as forward caching proxy, traffic shaping, intrusion detection, and easy OpenVPN client setup.