[sdnog] Limit wifi bandwidth per user

[Mujahid Abdellatif]

sorry i clicked on reply instead of reply List, thank you for your information I'll consider your points and i will check the setup with pfSense (cause it's Open Source of course ;-)) and hopefully things will work out great.

On 8/22/2017 2:46 PM, Philip Paeps wrote:
[Please reply to to the list and do not top-post.  Thanks.]

On 2017-08-22 13:33:56 (+0200), Mujahid Abdellatif wrote:
On 8/22/2017 2:28 PM, Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2017-08-22 13:20:09 (+0200), Mujahid Abdellatif wrote:
how can i limit or control or assign bandwidth per user in a wifi solution. is there any way that i can assign for example .5 Mbps speed per user or assign 512 MB as a download per user on a wifi scenario?

That depends on your wireless infrastructure.  If you're using something like Cisco, Extreme, Ubiquiti or Mikrotik hardware, you can use their management software to set this us.  Alternatively, if you're running pfSense, you can also configure traffic shaping.

What are you using?

I'm not using any devices yet. I've been asked to provide a WiFi solution that control the bandwidth per user for a small enterprise.

I would recommend Ubiquiti or Mikrotik.  In that order.  Ubiquiti is a bit more expensive but is easier to manage when you scale up.  Mikrotik is a bit cheaper but their management tools become a bit fiddly when you try to deploy them at scale.

so i was thinking of an open source solution to control the bandwidth per user. can i use any brands of WiFi with the pfSense to do so?

pfSense is something you run on a gateway.  It doesn't really care about the brand of access points you use.  It's open source (based on FreeBSD).

The advantage of using something like Ubiquiti is that you can control the bandwidth directly on the access point and stop clients that have gone over quota from even using (much) airtime.  pfSense sits deeper in your network and throttles users based on their IP address.  This makes it a bit easier to circumvent (though probably not a problem with non-technical users).

If you have existing access points, you could try out pfSense and see how far you get.  If you run into limitations, look into Ubiquiti or Mikrotik.

Cisco and Extreme Networks also have solutions but they're vastly more expensive.

Philip


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