HELP NEEDED TO SETUP QUEUE POOL

RouterOS General
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Dear Gurus,
I want to setup a queue (for example SOHO15 say CIR 512/768k and MIR 1mb/2mb). Then move all the customers with bandwidth configuration say (CIR256k/512k, MIR 512k/768k). My desire is to ensure that if there is a contention, all the customers in the pool are limited to their individual bandwidth setting, but if bandwidth is available, any of the customers can burst up to the limit set for the pool.

Is this possible? If it is possible, can anyone guide me on how to achieve this. I will appreciate

Thanks,

Austin

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Yes it is possible. Start out with this guide and work out from there. Queues are a complex subject and cannot be covered in a couple of posts. It will require you to play around with them and see how they work to start to understand them.
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Connection_Rate

Since I am guessing you want to apply a rate limit to each individual user within an overarching queue based on customer type, you’ll want to use PCQ for your queue type.
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Queues_-_PCQ
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Queues_-_PCQ_Examples
You can also do something with simple queues, but without an automatic way to handle, create, and administer them, that system would be a pain.

We use the hotspot to apply a per user rate limit (this allows for automatic simple queue creation) and then use pifo queues to apply an overall QoS system for all traffic leaving an interface. If you look at the Phoenix MUM slides, Fewi did a presentation on using PCQ with hotspots as well that is good.

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Thank you Feklar. I will run through it and post question wherever i might require further clarification.

I appreciate.