Access Point Bandwidth Limit

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Sora21

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Here's the deal :
I have a main WLAN router (Netgear DGN2200) used for me and my brother, and another router running as access point bridged with the main router (Netgear DGN2000),used for guests.Router and A.P are connected via ethernet.
Both have poor QoS settings (priority based over mac or app,port, etc )

What i want to do is limit the access point's total bandwidth to a certain -maximum-downstream and upstream (,say,300KB/s and 70KB/s). Not each device's bandwidth, but the whole access point offer.
Now i know both of my equipment wont offer such services, therefore i have installed 3rd firmware (DGTeam's) on the access point--but have been unlucky to find a bandwidth limiter or netshaper or whatever.
Wellknown firmwares like dd wrt's or tomato don't seem to have firmware for those two.

-Additionally, i could be interested in any kind of equipment between the router and access point that could apply the speed limitation.

Please help :p ..and thanks for your time




P.S. Like i said , im looking for some general limiting solution, not some local software like netlimiter, because the devices of the 'guest network' are not specific.
 
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pfSense will do it, but you'd need a spare computer or platform. Moving the AP you want to limit further away/decreasing the power is the only thing I can think of.
 
DD-WRT can do this, but its has to be done via config files and not via the GUI.

the syntax is something like (QOS Daemon) (interface) (bandwidth) (direction)

You should be able to dig up the details on the DD-WRT forums.
 
Mackintire said:
DD-WRT can do this, but its has to be done via config files and not via the GUI.

the syntax is something like (QOS Daemon) (interface) (bandwidth) (direction)

You should be able to dig up the details on the DD-WRT forums.
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yeah, but dd-wrt says they dont have any firmware available for dgn2000 , and in general in any netgear router+modem .
plus searching the forums returned this :
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=69666&highlight=dgn2000

im afraid im gonna end up ruining my router...
 
RocketTech said:
pfSense will do it, but you'd need a spare computer or platform. Moving the AP you want to limit further away/decreasing the power is the only thing I can think of.
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Yep ! pfSense is the way to go on this !

You can buy cheap Alix barebones and they will do the job perfectly.
 
Any mikrotik router will do this. You can get a RB750GL for $50.00 or so. You'd replace your main router with it, but you could use your main router as an access point only. Or get a mikrotik with wireless capability for a few bucks more.
 
ahuh. got it. well mikrotik's appear to be cheaper but still thanks ;)
so , just to doublecheck, mikrotik routers will work with the pfsense solution ( not the tomato firmware that s.o suggested)
 
Not quite that, Mikrotik use RouterOS wich is different in a lot of ways, its linux based and its kind of a all in one OS. Mikrotik is the hardware recommended for RouterOS and I havent seen much RouterOS on production on other hardware, but i think its doable. The price is very good.

PfSense is a firewall OS based on freeBSD and you add packages to add more functions. It is super stable and there is no official hardware or appliance for it, just a list of compatible devices. Some vendors like netgate offer 100% compatible hardware for pfSense.

With pfSense you can download packages within the GUI : http://skear.hubpages.com/hub/The-Best-pfSense-Packages and the list of features is there : http://www.pfsense.org/index.php@option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=43.html

With RouterOS you got also all that to play with : http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:TOC

Mikrotik will do the job perfectly, I just wanted to show pfSense :)
 
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