Hello!
I have a building with 7 flats on four floors. The current infrastructure has allowed me to set up
4 wireless access points --> switch --> WAN.
However, I was only able to get a 30-40Mbit connection set up for the building (13 occupants). I've tried setting up QoS within the cisco small business 300 series router I've got in place but I'm still struggling to keep the occupants happy.
I do have a server set up in the building which could be easily have pfsense installed on it. It currently has two ethernet ports as well so im thinking of going overkill and setting that up.
Other than the traffic shaper wizard (which I've had a little play around with following the tutorial on this site) is there anything else I could implement to really utilise all the available bandwidth and ensure a constant bandwidth guarantee to all users?
Should I consider rate limiting per IP?
The kids in the building are all students, possibly a few bandwidth hogs in there, but I did monitor the traffic coming from each floor for a while and it didn't seem to be too weighted to certain floors. The really do need, at minimum, a guaranteed amount of bandwidth to browse the web as a few of them are doing research for there dissertations!
Thanks in advance!
TL;DR. 30-40MBits internet connection with pfsense, guarantee bandwidth to 13 users?
I have a building with 7 flats on four floors. The current infrastructure has allowed me to set up
4 wireless access points --> switch --> WAN.
However, I was only able to get a 30-40Mbit connection set up for the building (13 occupants). I've tried setting up QoS within the cisco small business 300 series router I've got in place but I'm still struggling to keep the occupants happy.
I do have a server set up in the building which could be easily have pfsense installed on it. It currently has two ethernet ports as well so im thinking of going overkill and setting that up.
Other than the traffic shaper wizard (which I've had a little play around with following the tutorial on this site) is there anything else I could implement to really utilise all the available bandwidth and ensure a constant bandwidth guarantee to all users?
Should I consider rate limiting per IP?
The kids in the building are all students, possibly a few bandwidth hogs in there, but I did monitor the traffic coming from each floor for a while and it didn't seem to be too weighted to certain floors. The really do need, at minimum, a guaranteed amount of bandwidth to browse the web as a few of them are doing research for there dissertations!
Thanks in advance!
TL;DR. 30-40MBits internet connection with pfsense, guarantee bandwidth to 13 users?
