Which routerboard to use - part 2

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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I am trying to determine the best and most cost effective way to set this up.

I run a 60 room hotel, with each room wired for ethernet as well as wi-fi through 6 access points at various locations in the building. Until last week we had a single aDSL line (10Mb down/1Mb up) to serve as our link to the internet. This has been inadequate from the get go as whenever we are busy, and there are more than a few people on the network, everything bogged down to a crawl.

Unfortunately our ISP is unable to provide more than 15 down/1up speeds and thus we have had to install two additional aDSL lines to try and improve the guest experience with internet access.

So far we have been running the wired network on one aDSL modem, and have connected 3 access points to each of the two remaining aDSL modems. This has improved things greatly.

We are required to have a disclaimer page and redirection to the corporate page, the usual hotspot stuff, whenever a guest uses the network, be it wired or wireless.

Thus the question is, what would be the best routerboard choice to manage this?

Requirements would be:

  1. The wired network should be routed to one aDSL line exclusively
  2. Load balance the remaining two aDSL lines
  3. Route all wireless traffic through these two load balanced lines
  4. All wired and wireless clients must go through the hotspot (click on disclaimer to enable access)
  5. Be able to limit bandwidth to individual clients -or - limit bandwidth for stuff like torrents

Would one routerboard such as the RB493G or RB1100 be able to do this, or would it be better to use three RB450G and just have three separate networks, one wired, and two wireless and I wouldn’t have to worry about load balancing and all?

Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.

Harry.

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RB493AH is good for that.

I have one doing the same things in a big-medium-dregree-school/institute, but it will be easy to configure and manage a 450G as the load balancing and another 450G with 2 routes and the hotspot.

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A 493 or 450 would be enough for that. Get the AH or G model if you want extra processing power, but the basic model is enough for a 60 room hotel. One box is fully capable of everything that you want. Do you have any plans for the login page and how it will be serviced? You might be interested in this service for AAA management, monitoring, and login page generation. You also have the option of giving free access to your users and selling higher bandwidth profiles with it to help offset some of the costs of the extra DLS lines.
http://www.myinnsite.com/

Is there any reason why you want to route wired and wireless traffic differently? It is possible, but will require a bit more work to get going.

Torrents are a bit more of a tricky subject to cover, the overall simple queues will put a hard cap on how fast an end user can transfer traffic, but controlling them past that is difficult and can quickly become a very in depth subject.