simple question about limiting the data rate of the accee point

RouterOS Wireless Networking
1

hi every one ..
simple question /
see carefully to follwoing two images down . is there any difference between them ? which one is better ? why?
with thanks

2

Hello
Basic rates are the MINIMUM rates a client must acheive to connect to an AP while supported rates are the rates that can be reached once connected.
It’s a good idea to have higher values in basic rates since you will eliminate clients that are too far away to get a good signal. It’s a bad idea to remove higher rates in supported rates since clients will never get high throughput.

So, your 1st image is a bad config because clients are limited to 18MBps.
Your 2nd image is also bad because you permet clients with a weaker signal to connect AND you limit them at 18Mbps once connected.

A good config would be Basic rates=18Mbps, Supported rates=18MBps and all higer rates.


Regards,

3

thank you very much

So, your 1st image is a bad config because clients are limited to 18MBps.

do you mean that the 18MBps will be the maximuim value of data for any client user .or you mean that the 18MBps will be divided on the total number of the clients ?

Your 2nd image is also bad because you permet clients with a weaker signal to connect AND you limit them at 18Mbps once connected.

is ( once connected ) = for any client but not for all clients ?

A good config would be Basic rates=18Mbps, Supported rates=18MBps and all higer rates.

like this ?

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Hello and sorry for the delay.

I mean that all clients will only be able to reach a data rate connection of 18Mbps. Of course, Wi-Fi being what it is, they share the air, so the real throughput is reduced for heavyly used networks.

For your 2nd question, view these rates as what’s available to individual clients, not for the collective.

[Like this?]

Getting there, but not yet :wink: Here are my suggestions.

Basic rates: Click 18 and 24
Supported rates: Click 18 and above ONLY! You don’t want far away clients to associate to your AP and slow your Wi-Fi network down. So DON’T click those slow data rates (6 and 9). If need be, add more APs.

5

Doh! Just saw you title… So you want to rate limit.

Well yes, that’s one way of doing it. Although you will limit without a chance of giving some users more speed.

There are queues. Up to you.

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