So a place I was an intern at gave me an old Mikrotik 750 RouterBoard, I did very basic things on MikroTiks as we supply them to customers who want a managed router.
I’m trying to setup my home network with one now. I have a NetGear R6400 and a NetGear EX6200 (Range Extender) both with DD-WRT on them to act as more capable routers. (Yes even the Range Extender is now a router, albeit with limited capabilities but it’s enough for what I need) They’re both running the latest stable build of DD-WRT from February 19th. The EX6200 is connected to port 2 on the R6400 to act as basically an AP, it doesn’t have any rules really except acting as a DHCP server and Port Forwarding on it.
I’m trying to incorporate the MikroTIk into my network. I’ll have Port 1 on the Tik as my wan and place the R6400 and EX6200 on ports 2 and 3 respectively. I currently have a static IP from my ISP (which is the place I had my internship at) and believe i did a correct input onto the mikrotik.
The Local Network on the mikrotik has an IP of 192.168.1.100/24 with NAT enabled. I have Port 2 setup for the IP address as 192.168.1.50/24 and will setup the DHCP option on the R6400 to start at 192.168.1.51 and have 48 leases on that network. On Port 3 I have 192.168.1.100/24 for the setup and will do the same setup for the EX6200 i.e. set the DHCP to start at 192.168.1.101 and have 48 leases.
The whole reason for this is because of my network setup. I just want to limit each router to have a specific bandwidth. as everyone on the R6400 hogs the bandwidth leaving even webpages or online gaming on the EX6200 lagging all the time making the internet useless. I just want a simple way to limit ports 2 and 3’s bandwidth usage and get any other tips on how I should set up the network.