Don’t’ ask what is better for your network , Do some research , then compare them, then try to use them in lab environment or with very few users, then judge on your own. Only you can be the best one who can decide what is better for your network.
I will not comment on ‘Simple DHCP’, as its not worthy enough to discuss it due to its insecurity and poor design. lets talk about pppoe / hotspot.
One is not really better than the other, it comes down to what goals you have for your setup and what you require.
***** Hotspot is designed for ad hoc situations, where you cannot control how the client has their machines configured.Specially if most of your users have MOBILE type devices. It’s also a bit easier for some advance users to clone any working users, means if I have a WiFi in my laptop, and I can use any Linux live CD to first detect any AP of cable.net , then I will run an popular wifi signal tracer, via which I can connect to AP, if the AP is secure with WEP, I can spend only 1-2 hours to get the WEP key, YES ITS POSSIBLE , afterwards I can get working Users list, and hi jack there session. That’s the biggest disadvantage of using HOTSPOT. Grrrrrrr, zzzz Dont go deep, now back to topic, Hotspot is generally used in internet cafe’s , restaurants since people will come and go and you have few permanent users.
**** PPPoE assumes that the clients you have are regular so you can afford to take the time to work with them to configure their computers to use your service since they will continue to pay to use the service. Its much more secure as compare to hotspot due to its authentication mechanism. Just configure it ipless scenario and it will be much more secure then hotspot, since hacker will not get any server ip to track or hack.
Both hotspot and pppoe can be configured on one mikrotik server (On separate interfaces) , [but IMHO, dont do it if security is more concerned) So users will have a choice to adopt which authentication is most suited for them. But use Radius Server along with mikrotik, so it becomes transparent for users. because if you dont use Radius, then you have to create separate users in hotspot section and ppp section. Discussion can go for hours, so closing my comments for now !
thanks for your reply sir ,
i have configured mikrotik pppoer server on mt 433 AH router and all required cofiguration. after that when in ping pppoe sever from my computer(that is 192.168.10.1)interface reply was less then 1ms but when i start download somthing latency for pppoe server increase in triple digit and with breakage. i am using roteros 5.23,
can anybody tell me where is the actual problem . i have checked this 5 to 6 times.
Actually its common, because Queue limits ICMP packets too. If you are just worries because of high latency to mikrotik, simply create a queue that allow some access bandwidth just to ICMP protocol.
Thanks for your kind help. now i am trying read your blog for how to create radius server (inbulit for 100 user max on mikrotik 1100AH*2 and also about external radius server for more than 100). Is this possible on 1100AH *2 to create or serve to less than 100 concurrent users (router os version 6.0 and above).
RB1100 supports fairly good amount of concurrent connections with queues, firewall etc. I have heard from people that have around more then 300 concurrent connections without any issue on RB1100.
after apply mangle rule response is good but this wil be specific for each user or for transfer rate plan.
Is there any need for external radius server for mt 1100AH*2 routerbroad with 300 concurrent session. (if i dont make external radius server).
One more question sir ,how can i make mikrotik radius manage with this newtork setup.(if i want to make external radiusmanager with mikrotik router os ). (and i Know As per your blog damsoftlab is good for external server ).
