How To Set Bandwidth Limit On Pldt Router

How to change/limit bandwidth allocation of a device connected to a router (PLDT)

Have you ever experienced the experience of downloading a video or a game or even music and pictures that took a long minute/hour to wait for a few Mb to be fully downloaded to your device? Or watch some videos online and it freezes over and over again until frustration enters? You just have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people. A very difficult situation, isn't it?

And most importantly, have you tried measuring your device's Internet performance through Speedtest sites and found that from your 10Mbps plan, it has shrunk to just a few kbps. Even though the plan says "speeds up to 10 Mbps" but still, it is very unreasonable. Okay, I think we've all been through all of these dilemmas since it's a very common experience.

How to change/limit bandwidth allocation of a device connected to a router (PLDT)
How to change/limit bandwidth allocation of a device connected to a router (PLDT)


The question is, how can you at least improve your Internet service experience from poor to satisfactory?

But, keep in mind that no matter how much you allocate on your bandwidth and your registered plan is only 3Mbps, it will never skyrocket to 10Mbps. So it still depends on your registered plan. I will only share how to at least maximize it.


I will show you a step-by-step process on how to control the bandwidth allocation of your device on a PLDT router. But before that, it can only be applied to routers with traffic shaping features, otherwise the following method cannot be applied. I have only applied these steps to PLDT-provided Internet routers and have not yet tried others.


Step 1: Go to IP address: 192.168.1.1.

This is the default gateway IP address used to access your router's control panel.

Username: adminpldt and password: log in using 1234567890 (this is the default password but you can change the password for privacy purposes, please comment if you want to know)


Step 2: Click on Advanced tab then click on QoS. Under QoS, click Traffic Shaping

This is why it only applies to routers with the Traffic Shaping feature because here we will input all the changes to your device's bandwidth allocation. But before that, take a look at which devices are currently connected to your router.


Step 3: Check the devices currently connected to your router in your control panel

Click the Set Up tab, click WLAN, click Basic under WLAN, then click Show active client at the bottom of the page and it will show you the Active Wireless Client table that shows the active devices connected to your router.

The Active Wireless Client table shows the MAC addresses of all devices currently connected to your router.


Step 4: Also known as the physical address or MAC address of your device.

To allocate for your device, you need to know the MAC address of your device, but you can assign bandwidth limits to other devices as long as it is connected to your router or it is listed as an active device in the active wireless client table.

To find the MAC address of your device, open the command prompt then the input command ipconfig / all

Then find the physical address

Check that your actual address matches one of the MAC addresses listed in the active wireless client table in your router's control panel.

On your Android phone, you can see your MAC address in Settings -> About phone -> Status. It has Wi-Fi MAC address or MAC address only.


Step 5: Set up the upload and download bandwidth limit.

Copy your MAC address from the active wireless client table.

Go back to Traffic Shaping under the Advanced tab.

Paste your MAC address into the space-based Src MAC.

In the WAN interface, select "a0" in the drop-down list.

Assign bandwidth limits to the device on the upper floor, up ceiling, down floor and down ceiling.

Click Application

When allocating bandwidth to your device, always consider the maximum limit of your registered Internet connection plan. As mentioned above, our registered plan in PLDT is only up to 3 Mbps so I set the limit between 0 ~ 3000 Kbps.

Now, I know what you mean by up floor, up ceiling, down floor and down ceiling.

Up means upload and down means download. Although the terms floor and ceiling refer to your lower limit and upper limit, respectively. So, up floor means minimum upload speed limit of your device and up ceiling means maximum upload speed limit of your device. You can set up your upload and download settings based on your preferences


Step 6: Saving your changes

After clicking the Apply button, follow the steps below to save your configuration settings.

Go to the Maintenance tab

Then reboot the settings.

Select Save Current Configuration in the drop-down list.

Click the Commit Changes button.

Then click Reboot

Wait 1 to 3 minutes for your router to restart. After that, you can verify your changes by checking it through Speedtest.


Step 7: Verification

Below are the speedtest results for my device before and after making changes to my router settings.

After setting up the bandwidth allocation on my device

As you can see in the photo after the changes I made to the bandwidth allocation for my device, the upload and download speeds match the limit I set in step 5.

Note that the upload limit I input ranges from 400 ~ 500 kbps and the above results show 0.47 Mbps equivalent to 470 kbps which is within my set range. Also, the download range I input is in the range of 1000 ~ 1100 kbps and the result above shows the equivalent of 1070 kbps 1.07 Mbps, still within the range I set.

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