Looking for an intelligent device

[khalanga113]

Hi, i need to give my customers access to internet but only to use 200mb each time they login my router is not that intelligent what device can i use together with this router and where can i get it?

 

[superninja12]

you can do that with almost every router.
tp link is a good brand.

no"special devices needed." , the term you're looking for is bandwidth control : https://www.tp-link.com/us/faq-557.html

 

[khalanga113]

So the bandwidth control wont affect my users? It will only affect the Guest wifi only? Or there’s an option for Guest and Employee? I need employees not to have limited access but Guest to have limited access

 

[superninja12]

So the bandwidth control wont affect my users? It will only affect the Guest wifi only? Or there’s an option for Guest and Employee? I need employees not to have limited access but Guest to have limited access

Exactly, you can assign guests different ip adresses with 200mb.

and the workers can use the main wifi address, im sure you will figure out with some youtube.

 

[bill001g]

I suspect what you want is more complex than any simple consumer router can provide.

The router itself has no ability to control or identify individual users. The guest wireless is just second password for your router each user does not have their own. The limitation on bandwidth are by ip address not users and the pool of ips are the same both for the regular network and guest. You would have to do something like manually assign all the employee ip and let the guest use DHCP.

I also suspect you mean a 200 megaBYTE cap not and a 200mBIT data rate. Many internet connections are not 200mbit/sec so you would need a very fast internet connection behind your router.


The device you want is generically call a captive portal. Generally it is done with 2 device a router with some front end support and a server to do all the hard work. The CPU in a router just is not powerful enough. There are special built devices you can buy or there is a lot of support for custom firmware on a router a simple pc running a linux variant. It depends how much you want to learn and do yourself.