Router recommendation for hotel

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Metraon

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I am searching for a router and/or firewall system for a small hotel, with some kind of captive portal.

Actually there is nothing in place, there is 5 computers that need to access the internet all day long, but there is no servers, no vpn, its only web traffic. There is 2 buildings of 24 rooms that can potentially want to have access to the internet.

The "tricky part" is that its a 2mbps/2mbps internet connection, so the owner want to actually limit the traffic during the day for the employees to work without be slowed by the clients, as its actually happening they got a netgear router with DDWRT.

What is recommended for that ? QoS on the staff subnet and go with Squid with some ACL and time restrictions ? Block traffic during the day and allow it in the "night" There is about 12 rooms..

I want to block all traffic except mail traffic and web(http) traffic, no VPN in/out, no torrents,...

I was looking at pfsense with schedules, or something like that. Any good vendor alternatives ?

Thanks !
 
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Mikrotik can do all of this. I have a public Wifi site where I only allow TCP 80 and 443 out as well as 25, 143, and 110 and block all else and force all DNS lookups to OpenDNS and block porn to limit unnecessary crap.

They can do schedules and captive portal as well and they do QOS very well.
 
I was thinking about mikrotik, the problem is I don't know which model I have to pick.

I have the RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN in my small office and I have to say its perfect, but I dont know if it will do the job for a 12 room hotel.

There is another building in construction for another 12 room that is gonna be ready in 4-6 months.

I presume a RB1100Hx2 is a safe bet ?
 
Honestly, that wifi network I mentioned sees steadily 40+ devices on it at any given time. It's a 10 meg DSL connection and I'm using a RB750 and the CPU hits 7-8% if I'm lucky. It usually sits at 1-2%. I think a RB2011 would be plenty.
 
Impressive, I must admit that's pretty neat and reassuring, are the clients on ubiquiti access points ?
 
Yup I use the captive portal feature of them. (I have a pc dedicated as the controller though)
 
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