Limiting bandwidth per user

[Inkognito]

I'm in the process of setting up our wifi, at the Motel where I work, after having to reset our main router.

I would like to ask what my options are concerning limiting the bandwidth that each connected user is allotted.

Our main router is a ZyXEL ZyWall USG 200. It's the DHCP server and it has a lot of advanced settings.

Our Motel only has a 10/1 Mbit connection and we might have around 50-100 guests at a time.

How do I limit the bandwidth for each user?

What would be a reasonable limit? The guests usually only have smartphones or tablets.

 

[Beachnative]

50 -100 guests? And they all have smart phones...and their kids have wifi enabled devices too that number could easily double. If it is all wireless then you need to find out how many AP's are there and what make and model they are....

Buying a bigger pipe is probably your best bet, 10/1 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too small and just annoys everyone including the guests and staff. Your problem could be users having too many devices, viruses, streaming TV from an Apple TV, Netflix or just some A holes on PTP sites hogging it all up. You need to have a set of guidelines for ALL guests telling them you provide free internet access and it is a best effort policy and nothing is guaranteed.....

If they are paying for it tell the owner to buy more an quit being so cheap......

 

[Inkognito]

I agree that 10/1 is way too small. The motel is located 8 kilometres outside town, so it's the best they could get. I did convince the owner to do something about it, and he made a deal with a provider to establish a fiber connection, but it will probably take months before it is operational.

But even with 50/50, couldn't someone using PTP hog it all?

 

[Kewlx25]

I agree that 10/1 is way too small. The motel is located 8 kilometres outside town, so it's the best they could get. I did convince the owner to do something about it, and he made a deal with a provider to establish a fiber connection, but it will probably take months before it is operational.

But even with 50/50, couldn't someone using PTP hog it all?

50/50 should actually be quite hard to consume, as that's my speed and have tried my best using P2P to overwhelm it, and it's really really hard to do so. But using PFSense(FreeBSD) should make it relatively easy to setup a small x86 router that can make sure that no one IP address can monopolize all of the bandwidth.

 

[Beachnative]

What country are you in and is your 50/50 CIDR?

 

[Inkognito]

What country are you in and is your 50/50 CIDR?

I'm in Denmark, and since we haven't got the connection yet, I don't know much about it. Having looked CIDR up on Wikipedia, I'm not sure why you ask.

 

[Inkognito]

I agree that 10/1 is way too small. The motel is located 8 kilometres outside town, so it's the best they could get. I did convince the owner to do something about it, and he made a deal with a provider to establish a fiber connection, but it will probably take months before it is operational.

But even with 50/50, couldn't someone using PTP hog it all?

50/50 should actually be quite hard to consume, as that's my speed and have tried my best using P2P to overwhelm it, and it's really really hard to do so. But using PFSense(FreeBSD) should make it relatively easy to setup a small x86 router that can make sure that no one IP address can monopolize all of the bandwidth.

I see, so it's a bit more than just a setting on the router; but maybe it won't be relevant with the 50/50 connection.

 

[Beachnative]

What country are you in and is your 50/50 CIDR?

I'm in Denmark, and since we haven't got the connection yet, I don't know much about it. Having looked CIDR up on Wikipedia, I'm not sure why you ask.

CIDR means Committed Information Data Rate meaning if you pay for 50M you get 50M.
Then there is "best effort" SLA meaning you can get up to but not guaranteed to get 50M