Can Mikrotik do this?

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello all,
I’m looking to divide up a 10Mb leased line between several offices (5-8 depending on how the letting agent splits them up). The bandwidth will be sold as an additional service so I will have to make sure that whoever buys 0.5, or 1 or 2 Mb gets what they pay for and not (much) more. I have bought a Miktrotik 750 to play with for now and it seems a nice piece of kit, but seeing as I’m totally new and won’t have a lot of time before this project goes live… does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to play this?
Can the 750 cope with 10Mb in each direction or should I be looking at getting more powerful hardware?
Can/Should I put each office into a separate VLAN to keep them separate?

All the offices will be reachable with cat-5 apart from one which will be on a 5GHZ radio link. I mainly use procurve for our network switches but this project is more about traffic shaping and QoS than “Lots of fast ports”.

Thank you in advance for any replies, I’m sorry to ask such basic questions but just knowing if it can or can’t be done will save a lot of messing about :slight_smile:
Morat

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  • it can handle 10 Mbps just fine
  • yes, one VLAN per customer would be a good idea. Then use the firewall to prevent the customer subnets from talking to one another
  • one simple queue per VLAN is enough for this scenario as you described it. Read the wiki on them. You’d want a direction of ‘both’, a target address of the network address and subnet mask of the VLAN, and the rate limit