Hello,
i bought a mikrotik routerboard and downloaded WinBox. Now i want to limit the download and upload speed of my WiFi Network. I red about options, how to add a queue with IP-Adresses, but when somebody new joins the network, i dont want to add his IP in the Queue. I just want to set a max download limit for all clients in WiFi. How to do this?
Thanks for your help
You can limit the bandwidth leaving RB on any of the interfaces, using HTB queues. These limits are for all users together.
See https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:HTB
For download, that’s easy: add queue to wireless interface and limit it’s rate.
For upload, you’ll be sharing the bandwidth with wireless users and other users. Hence you need to mark traffic.
both are explained on that page.
Can you give us a real example of how to use wifi only limiter?
I have hAP ac and I want to limit the bandwith on 2.4Gh band only. Not on 5Gh, not on lan.
I’m a begginer so that explanation is not helping me at all
I’m looking to do the same as well. I guess this is the hit you have to take for RouterOS being such a powerful system - you have to learn a little more than usual to carry out might be more simple through a GUI. I’ve created a simple queue on wlan1 but nothing appears to be throttled so I guess I’m missing something else. The videos linked start talking about marking packets through the firewall.
name=“queue1” target=wlan1 parent=none packet-marks=“” priority=8/8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=0/0 max-limit=1M/1M burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 burst-time=0s/0s bucket-size=0.1/0.1
This article made me smile - for the impatient: https://i.imgur.com/KVGWW3W.png - this does talk about marking packets but maybe that’s needed for simple throttling.
I think one has to invest some time in learning RouterOS. This website/tutorial helped me:
http://tksja.com/qos-basics-one-simple-queue-for-all-users/
The key “ah ha” is that if Fasttrack is enabled, queues are ignored.