We've never used rate limits. Doing the math, the price for larger internet
pipes was significantly less that the rate/traffic shaping technology plus
related FTE staffing costs.
Jeff
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv
On Behalf Of Adam T. Ferrero
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 4:12 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] [External] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Rate Limits on Guest
Wi-Fi
Once we got all our pipes bigger than most folks could use, we dropped all
the rate limiting games we were playing. It's simpler and easier to operate.
On the wired side, when we were increasing from 10 to 100 to gig we used to
wrongly think they're going to use it all up and our upstream pipes will have
to be massive to deal with it. Users just use what they need/want and when you
raise their throughput ceiling they'll just get it faster and get out of the
way. Third party optics and internet bandwidth are all cheap now.
Adam
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mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>>
On Behalf Of Martin MacLeod-Brown
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3:12 AM
To:
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: [External] Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Rate Limits on Guest Wi-Fi
That is an interesting question. I believe (perhaps wrongly) that rate limiting
increases Wi-Fi inefficiency as you are then forcing the client to stay on the
medium longer to transmit/receive data?
We used to rate limit back in the day, but then removed all limits when we went
to 802.11ac and didn't notice any impact to the network...
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[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Curtis K. Larsen
Sent: 13 April 2021 00:21
To:
WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU<mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Rate Limits on Guest Wi-Fi
Hello,
Curious to know if any have removed or recently raised the rate limit on the
Guest Wi-Fi network at your institution, particularly large universities or
hospitals. If you have taken that step how is it going? Also curious to hear
what speeds you rate limit to if it is rate limited and how you came to that
conclusion.
Thanks,
--
Curtis K. Larsen
Wireless Network Engineer III
The University of Utah
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