Hi,
I read the mikrotik documentation for rate limiting, but i totally dont understand it.
Can somebody please explain me in an exaple.
I would like to limit the real download speed of some client.
Under real download speed, i mean the speed that is really shown while downloading some program or aplication, for example my ADSL has a 2Mb speed, but when I am downloading something i can only get a “real download speed” of 200kb.
I would like to set up that “real download speed” for the client, to be maximum 50kb.
How to do that?
Please help me with an example.
Thank you a lot.
If your clients are wireless, you can limit them in the access list of the wireless tables of the AP
If your clients are wired, you can limit them by the use of the dhcp server (limit the speed of the client mac. address)
There are more ways of doing it, like with authentication protocols and even special authentication servers that will also do limiting, depending on how your network is actually setup. You need to give more details and also read the manual, FAQ (see link on top of the forum) and the Wiki (go to the main page).
Giving a simple example needs more info from your end but is not the best way to learn how it works and might not work if not all details are known by the tutor.
Any experienced user on this forum can tell you that understanding MT ROS comes with lots or reading…
rgds
I have setup a hotspot and am using User Manager to configure the wireless hotspot clients. In user manager i go to the option where i can limit the rate, but there are several options to choose:
Rate limit: RX TX
Burst rate: RX TX
Burst threshold: RX TX
Burst time: RX TX
I understand that RX is the upload and TX is the download if looking from the view of the client computer.
But which of this rates (rate limit, burst rate, or burst treshold…)do i have to limit if i want to limit the “real download speed”, as explained before, and how do i type it? do I put in “50k” or just “50” or?
Thank you.
Any setting to do with ‘burst’ is not very interesting. This is only to set a temporarily higher speed for the client (in ms) then the one assigned by the normal ‘rate limit’.
On the Wiki and forum whole discussion are spend on how to do it and if it is really helping browsing (no more then that.)
The ‘rate limit’ is just for capping clients speed. Here you set a speed basically in bits. But 1000 bits can be written with “k” so 128k equals 128000 bytes (not exact, since “k” bytes stands for “kilo” but in bytes (or bits, I’m always confused here 
) this is actually 1024 bytes. So, 128k means 128 x 1024 = 131.072 bytes while you could write 128.000 to equall 128 x 1000) So yes, you can write “50k”.
(Actually, in the new fam. of ROS if formats or amount of numers are written wrong Winbox actaully ‘sees’ this and comes back with an error message.)
You can also use 1M to reflect Megabyte. This would be written in bytes like 1.000.000.