I do the same but wonder if there is a better way? Doesnt this load unwanted traffic on the backhauls? -RickG
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Blair Davis<[email protected]> wrote: > I use MikroTik Queue's for my D/L limiting. > > My border router is big enough to handle quite a few clients... > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > I understood that download limiting can only be properly done by > queuing and delaying the user's uplink requests/acks since managing > the actual download traffic would involve dropping packets or queuing > a large amount of data. This is according to the documentation of the > Linux based firewalls I've tried which do QoS and bandwidth limiting. > > How are you accomplishing D/L limiting at the border router? > > Greg > On Aug 4, 2009, at 4:57 AM, Blair Davis wrote: > > > > For 802.11 systems, I prefer to split it. > > I limit D/L, from internet to client, at the border router. > > This allows the limiting to be done before the traffic enters my > wireless network, reducing congestion and load on my backhauls > > I limit U/L, from client to internet, at the cpe. > > This helps keep one cpe from monopolizing the 802.11 AP. > > In general, I try to limit traffic where it enters my network. > > YMMV > > [email protected] wrote: > > > Question: Which is better? Throttle the cpe at the cpe or at the > router? > > Currently we have a router setup at each tower site and do > bandwidth limiting on it with simple queues and the users ip. But > we want to setup our billing system so the office help can change > packages and we just have it login to the ip in billing and > automatically run a script to set the bandwidth throttle. > > But is the a disadvantage to limiting at the cpe vs. the tower? > > Thanks, > John Buwa > Michiana Wireless > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
