Microtik HapLite - Limiting Wireless Traffic

RouterOS General
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I am a newbie. We are using 2 Microtik HapLite routers. I think the ISP router is set to Bridge mode and connected by ethernet to a Microtik HapLite router in one room. This is connected by ethernet to another Microtik HapLite in another room. Three PCs are connected by ethernet to the Microtik routers. Both routers send out wifi.

All is fine until too many people connect to the wifi network which causes slow internet to the PCs connected to the network. This causes Zoom meetings to disconnect or experience other problems.

We don’t want to disable the wifi as people might need it. However, is there a way to limit the wifi bandwidth or traffic so that the PCs connected by ethernet always have priority? Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Kind regards
Chris

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You may want to look into queues.
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Queues
(implementation examples are in the subsections)

Be advised though, this is 100% CPU stuff so it may put some extra load on your device.

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And if simple exemples are needed.
These are 2 types of queues that I implemented/combined with just following the tutorials.

  • limit the traffic per device with simple queues
  • use queue tree to implement quality of service, that is to give certain traffic priority

https://tksja.com/bandwidth-management-using-simple-queue/

https://tksja.com/full-bandwidth-management-pt1-mangle-rules/
https://tksja.com/full-bandwidth-management-pt2-queue-tree/

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Thank you both for your replies. I will study the tutorials and see how I get on.

Kind regards
Chris