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So I have a bunch of questions that none of you newbies have ==> I am newer than any one else. :smiley:

here is the test I want to perform:
I have a Routerboard 450G and I want to configure it so that my two laptops are connected to it, then I want to give laptop1 maximum bandwidth of 1MBps and the second laptop 2MBps.

Currently my routerboard is connected to my home router Ethernet port and one of my laptops is also connected to my home router. and I can communicate with the routerboard with Winbox.

Questions:

  1. should I configure the router while connecting to my home router and communicating with my laptop with Winbox, and then replace the home router with the configured routerboard?

  2. how can I configure my routerboard to assign maximum bandwidth to each one of my laptops? How my routerboard will recognize the dynamic IP addresses of my laptops each time?

  3. is there any manual for winbox or do you suggest that I use SSH or telnet to configure the routerboard?

Thanks very much and I am sitting right here waiting to receive your answers? :slight_smile:

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  1. should I configure the router while connecting to my home router and communicating with my laptop with Winbox, and then replace the home router with the configured routerboard?

Probably a good idea so you’re not without Internet while figuring things out.

  1. how can I configure my routerboard to assign maximum bandwidth to each one of my laptops? How my routerboard will recognize the dynamic IP addresses of my laptops each time?

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Queue#Simple_Queues
That’s most easily based on IPs. You can use DHCP with static leases: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/DHCP_Server#Leases

  1. is there any manual for winbox or do you suggest that I use SSH or telnet to configure the routerboard?

It doesn’t matter, one translates to the other. “/ip dhcp-server network” is the same as clicking on the IP menu, selecting the DHCP-Server option and selecting the “Network” tab. FWIW I prefer the command line as it tends to be faster.