care to post an (anonymized) cacti chart for a customer?  I'm curious what
kind of usage patterns we are talking about here.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Kade Sullivan via Af <[email protected]> wrote:

> So it's becoming a reoccurring nightmare for me.  I get a customer calling
> in saying their internet is slow.  It ends up being their upstream or
> downstream or both are totally maxed out for hours on end.  Unfortunately,
> my responsibility does not stop there.
>
> We have been going the route of installing Mikrotik's in the customer
> home, which helps us identify the problem.  But what do we do from there?
>
> I feel like the overall bandwidth isnt the ENTIRE problem.  With more
> intelligent usage, more people can use it simultaneously.  Of course,
> giving them more speed would help, but I feel like it's a bandaid around
> the big picture, which is the fact that nothing plays nice with anything
> else.
>
> Are there any mikrotik guru's here that could figure something out that we
> could preload on all these mikrotik routers that would help minimize this
> issue?
>
> In my mind, I feel like the solution lies in the prioritization of each
> connection, without putting a hard limit on any one device.  I just can't
> seem to figure out the proper implementation.
>
> Are any of you seeing this reoccurring nightmare?
>
>

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