Limiting bandwidth of certain devices on WAN

phil675

phil675

phil675

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Hi, hoping someone can help.

So the background of this is our landline broadband is slow and always will be, lately 4G speeds blow it out the water so I'm considering a 4G/5G router. But the cap on an 'unlimited' connection is 1000 GB a month. Looking at usage stats for the last year on our broadband, most months are between 4-500GB, some are up to 800GB. I imagine more bandwidth would be used with the higher speeds.

So let's say I go with it, the EE 4/5G routers are quite limited so what device do I want between the router and the rest of the network that would give me control over bandwidth to the outside?

The ideal set up would be limiting bandwidth on whatever the DHCP range is and then devices with unlimited bandwidth can have a static address. I'd have to turn off its WiFi and use a different access point too.

Thanks.
 
If you get an Aruba Instant on it would be easy peesy to setup two ssids. One with a bandwidth restriction and one without. I'm sure Unifi and all the other Soho managed wireless products do this too.
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
If you get an Aruba Instant on it would be easy peesy to setup two ssids. One with a bandwidth restriction and one without. I'm sure Unifi and all the other Soho managed wireless products do this too.
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Unifi lets you add guest SSID's with bandwidth limiting via the controller, it's basic, but functional. If you can go the router route (I haven't looked at 4/5G routers since dongles were failover) DDWRT and it's derivatives can do the same via NAT QOS per MAC, or you could limit certain traffic types to a % of total bandwidth. Untangle does similar (may be paid - I can't check as my router box decided it didn't like being a router after several years loyal service).
 
Any of the Mikrotik LTE routers will do this.

I'll check later but I think you can do it on the TP-link MR routers as well.
 
I’ve checked and you could do this in a crude way on a TP-Link MR router using the QOS rules.
 
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