How to limit a VPN user's data rate?

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Hey Everyone,

I need to give a third party access to my network through VPN. I have the user created and the VPN works fine. I am just having issues figuring out how to cap this user’s data capacity. Anyone know how I could accomplish this? I would like to limit this user to 5-10 Mbps when VPN’d into my MikroTik. The reason I need to limit them is because the user will have access to camera feeds so if they start streaming a lot of cameras, their data transmission will skyrocket and use a lot of the internet’s bandwidth. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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There is rate-limit setting in ppp profile.
Or the ability to create a queue autimatically.

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Thanks! Yeah I found that setting. I’m having other issues now, but think I’m all set with the MikroTik configuration.

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I’ve figured out how to set the limits for the VPN user. Now if I log in as that user and exceed the limit the VPN connection drops. Is there anyway that I can keep the VPN connection established, but drop packets instead?

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Use the second option I mentioned - dynamically created queues, configured on the next tab right there in the ppp profile.

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I appreciate your help so far. I created a simple queue limiting upload/download at 10M for the specific VPN connection. However once I connect with that VPN user and stream 9 cameras, i get more than 10 Mbps easily. So I do not think I set up the rule properly. Check out this picture.
Simple-Queue.PNG

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Just tried it, with l2tp works as it should.

Do you see any traffic matching the queue?
I think you need to create a static “PPTP Server Binding” for this user to use as a queue target.

Or you can try automatically created queues from ppp → profiles → profile → queue tab

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Got it working properly now. Thanks for your help!

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Great! You are welcome :slight_smile: