Re: Rate limiting. in Wireless Service Providers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17819948 en Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:19:33 EDT Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:19:33 EDT Re: Rate limiting. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17819948 battleop : I played with m0n0 in VM Ware before I loaded it up on a PC. After playing with it I have it doing a few more things than i was looking for at first. I have it doing a couple of things.

Rate limiting. I have 3 classes of service right now. 2/2 4/4 and 6/6.

A walled garden. Don't pay your bill and you get to see the "Contact Support" message. I don't know if I will get to try this feature out, I can't remember the last time I cut a wireless customer off for a no pay.

Firewall. I am blocking stuff into our network, various worm ports, etc.

Traffic Shaping. I have not had to use this yet. I don't have a very heavy P2P usage on my network. Not on my DSL network or T1 network. But then again I am probably 80/20 Business to Residential these days.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17819948 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:10:06 EDT Re: Rate limiting. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17818643 Airplane777 : I agree with lutful.

I use Monowall on a WRAP board for up and down BW management.

Works great. And the price is right too.

I'm indebted to lutful, John Galt, Superdog, LLigetfa, DAsneaky1D, and I know there are others whose names aren't on the tip of my tongue right now; for giving me information, and pointing me in the right direction on setting up and using Monowall.

There is a whole lot more to Monowall that I still need to learn (like being able to assign public IPs to customers), but I have the main things down, so that I can use it.

It's been a while since I set up a new Monowall with firmware. I might have to read back over some of my notes to do that again though.

I lovvvveee Monowall...especially on a WRAP board.

If a Monowall guru had a course (anywhere in the US) on how to use all the features in Monowall, I'd sign up. Hint...hint...lol.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17818643 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:00:16 EDT Re: Rate limiting. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17818556 lutful :
said by battleop See Profile :

My ideal way to do this is to put some sort of linux box at each tower so that I can traffic shape before it hits the back haul.
Free m0n0wall software running on an inexpensive WRAP embedded board will do this for about $175-$200 per tower. For what it does, m0n0wall has a relatively simple GUI with hints. Do a search in this forum to see examples. :)

Mikrotik pre-loaded on RB5xx series board will also work but may require a bit more time to learn.

Either solution will fit nicely in a low-cost outdoor enclosure so you could mount on the tower.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17818556 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:46:44 EDT Re: Rate limiting. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17818051 BayAreaMicro : You don't need to shape at every access point with some products unless you want to go out to every location and manage everything one at a time. Why waste time?

I've tried all that MicroTik, LiveCD, smaller company appliances, etc. etc.... But they failed on support. It may be a cheap solution but required a whole lot of attention....

I personally purchased a Sysmaster to centralize the authentication and manage bandwidth. You may want to try Sysmaster out yourself out in California. Good support and rave reviews. The support is the best feature that you should consider since every wifi appliance requires good backing. I've been left hanging by smaller wanabe WISP companies that claim to be the all in one solution, but I assure you I am a supper happy Sysmaster client. I will be looking into their Cell Nodes next to enable roaming access to replace my current radios and manage all my access points through the Sysmaster system.

If you would like my contact at Sysmaster let me know I'm sure he can work up a good deal for you.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17818051 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:19:06 EDT Re: Rate limiting. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17728551 gunther_01 : Star-OS, Mikrotik, Ikaurus, ..... There are many. Depends on your network and exactly how far you want to prioritize traffic. All of these will set limits for your customer plans. And all can be placed on small form factor hardware and sit in a small enclosure at AP location. You got some reading to do, and sales people to strangle.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17728551 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:55:17 EDT Rate limiting. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17728305 battleop : A few months ago some of the sales monkeys come to me and ask. Hey can we tier our wireless like we do our DSL? I say uh yea I guess so and that was it.

So now I start getting orders for 1.5mb 3Mb and 6Mb installs. So I go ask about the speed stuff on the order form and they say "Well you said we could do that." UGH! Sales! and they wonder why I never open the door to my office or let them in the server room or the lab.

Any ways does anyone have a suggestion on how to rate limit biased on Mac or IP? My ideal way to do this is to put some sort of linux box at each tower so that I can traffic shape before it hits the back haul. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17728305 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:05:43 EDT