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 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv <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 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... From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv [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 ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
