Simple QOS for apartment

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m still reading and testing a lot about more complicated QOS setup on a test router, but I’m wondering if I can just setup some simple QOS while I’m learning. It’s taking me a while to wrap my head around this stuff so I’d love to have something simple in place for now.

So I have two cisco 1200 wireless G access points plugged into a mikrotik 450G in an apartment building of mine. There are about 10 people using a 3 meg down connection. This is fine for general web surfing but the temptations of file sharing and netflix are too much and they eat the bandwidth and everybody complains. It’s in the lease that the free internet is for general internet surfing and that they’ll have to get their own internet for anything more–but I still get complaints all the time about how their netflix keeps reloading… :slight_smile:

  1. Can I emplement a simple QOS for everyone? Preferably within webconfig?

I really don’t care who is doing what, so I don’t even really want to worry about prioritizing traffic (unless that’s the only way to do things simply). I just want every connection to have their own fair share.

My preference would be to just tell QOS to give everyone a fair share and not have to allot amounts, but if that can’t work I’d like for each connected device to have a maximum of like 500kb down or something like that. I don’t want individual logins for now, I just want it to apply to each mac address preferably.

  1. Can I set that up simply and quickly? Could someone help me or point me to a doc that would help me?

  2. Once I set that up, do I need to do not have to have the QOS apply to the access points or does that even matter? Does the traffic that goes through an access point count toward a total for the access point’s mac address–or am I just being silly in my concern?

4Thanks for any help. I’m sure us newbs are pretty annoying. Can you tell me where I might find a mikrotik/networking for dummies starter guide? Even going through the docs I keep finding terminology I don’t understand. I’m a pretty good basic tech, so I’m not sure if I just don’t understand networking or if I don’t understand mikrotik… Probably a mix of both. mangle? chains? queues? interfaces? sounds like terms from the next 50 shades novel…

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I have done something like this before, let me see if I can find an example.

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Hi,
you need in your QoS to set Type PCQ.
I have a website with this setup example:
look this:
http://mikrotik.romelsan.com/

then the example:
http://mikrotik.romelsan.com/home/qos-tree

There is the example code, and the screenshots… you just have to change the IPs , interface , and the bandwidth you want your users to have.
Good luck :slight_smile:

Edit: Complete PCQ explanation here: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Queues_-_PCQ
Basically this PCQ will share the internet speed (equally)
example: if you have 4mb
and there are 2 computers then it will divide the internet between the 2 computers. 2mb each one.
and if there is only 1 pc at any time… then just that pc will receive the 4mb. Until another pc connects.