[Asterisk-Users] Bandwidth control on a home office network

[Adam Holt]

Hi,

I have a Grandstream ATA today connected to my 750k broadband 
connection via an older router / firewall that doesn't have any QoS / 
ToS capability.  It works fine apart from the obvious problem of when 
large emails come in or somebody else on the network starts d/l-ing 
something big off the web.

I'm wondering whether to swap the router for a Cisco in order to 
introduce some local bandwidth control.

Alternatively I was wondering if I picked up a Cisco 7960 handset 
instead - is the 2nd ethernet port routed through the device, or does 
it just act as an Ethernet repeater, i.e. if I arranged the handset in 
the network as below would I get bandwidth prioritisation for the 7960?

[CABLE MODEM]------[7960]-------[FW / ROUTER / HUB]--------[REST OF MY 
NETWORK]

Thanks for any tips.

BR /adam.