Help request - qos/queues for home wifi

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Hi all,

I’ve purchased as suggested in this forum a Mikrotik RB8951B router to use on my flat which I share with a few people that live here. My idea was to use some QoS in order to give them 5Mbit upstream and 512K downstream and reserve the rest for myself (several devices from android phones, personal laptops and playstation).

While I couldn’t replace the operator modem/router it was quite simple to disable wireless on the operator equipment and connect the Mikrotik to the operator equipment and share the internet through the Mikrotik. The first visible improvement was that for the first time I actually managed to pull out the 30Mbit speed that I’m entitled. With the operator equipment I could manage to pull around 25Mbit (poor wifi equipment?).

Being happy with this and giving the first steps with RouterOS (a whole new world with loads of information to process) I was hoping that someone could help me to accomplish the following:

  1. Ensure that a given number of devices (other peoples stuff) have access to 5Mbit upstream and 512K downstream;
  2. Ensure that my devices get the rest of the bandwidth (25Mbit upstream and 2.5Mbit downstream);
  3. Get some throtling on P2P for the ‘other people’ so that they don’t choke each other;

Any suggestion on the best way to accomplish that? As far as I can see there’s quite a few ways of implementing several solutions for the main goals. Can our fellow users share some experiences and concepts that have been tested? Maybe some magic formula that can be easilly used? Best way to test things, etc…

Any help would be most welcome. Thanks in advance.

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Hi,

I don’t know about your p2p question but for traffic limitations I use this setup on my guest WLAN:

/ip firewall mangle
add action=mark-connection chain=prerouting dst-port=80 in-interface="guest" \
    new-connection-mark=http-conn protocol=tcp
add action=mark-packet chain=prerouting connection-mark=http-conn \
    new-packet-mark=http-pkt passthrough=no
add action=mark-connection chain=prerouting dst-port=443 in-interface="guest" \
    new-connection-mark=http-conn protocol=tcp
add action=mark-packet chain=prerouting connection-mark=http-conn \
    new-packet-mark=http-pkt passthrough=no
add action=mark-connection chain=prerouting in-interface="guest" \
    new-connection-mark=other-conn protocol=tcp
add action=mark-packet chain=prerouting connection-mark=other-conn \
    new-packet-mark=other-pkt passthrough=no

and this for the queue setup:

/queue tree
add comment="http traffic gets high prio" limit-at=524288 max-limit=1048576 \
    name=guest-http packet-mark=http-pkt parent="guest" priority=1 \
    queue=wireless-default
add comment="everything else has low prio" limit-at=262144 max-limit=524288 \
    name=guest-other packet-mark=other-pkt parent="guest" queue=\
    wireless-default

I hope this gives you a general idea about the traffic limitation. You will just have to make sure that those other people are on their own virtual AP.

Zap.