Queues

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello,

i am absolutely newbie on routeros and may be its a simple problem, but i can’t find a solution right now so i am asking here. i have internet connection with 4mbit syncron. there are 5 pcs in the lan. now is the problem when one user is downloading from the web all others are waiting. i solved that with a simple queue, for each ip one queue. that works fine, but is it possible to dynamically assign the bandwith to the user if no one is using the connection? so i have 5 queues now, each one have 1mbit. i want to assign more speed to the clients if there is no one using the internet connection. how can i do that?

thanks
max

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Simple queues have “Max limit” and “Limit at” properties. “Limit at” is the minimum granted speed user should get (4/5=0.8mbit in your case). If you set Max limit from 0.8 up to 4mbit then users can get bandwidth that is not used by others. But take a note, that routerOS will try to satisfy “limit at” of all queues first, then it will distribute remaining bandwidth in the order you have listed your queue rules. In other words if you set “max limit” too high then only the first user in queue rule list will benefit from any spare bandwidth.