Sharing 100mb,hardware choice

NettingForSale

hi,
I have used the search tool but would like some advice from people's experience if possible.

I live in a house divided into apartments. We all share one 100 mb connection with upc. We run cables to wireless routers for some, others direct in. The plan is to have everyone hard wired to a single router port each, even if some of them pass through a wireless router to get to their respective port. Up untill recently there was only 3 of us on it and it was fine. With two others its at the stage where it can get really slow.

I would like to buy a router that I can manage the bandwidth used by each ethernet port on it. I would like to implement a percentage sharing whereby each port is even a fraction of the bandwidth based on how many are connected. So if 2 people are on they both get 50%, if all 5 are on they each get 20%.

So the cisco 3925 would be in bridge mode to a router which each apartment would connect to individually.

I would like an 8 port router with the facility to manage the bandwidth as indicated. As far as i can tell dd-wrt and tomato do not do this.

Their pages on Qos are about prioritizing bandwidth. So maybe I need to use tomato or dd-wrt to prioritize web browsing and streaming and not torrents or something similar, rather than the percentage based way which seems fairer to me. eg, someone doesn't stream a lot finds the internet slow is unfair as they're paying the same as someone streaming all day long. And then they want to watch an hour or two of tv and they might as well have a dongle.

i realize this is probably only available on very expensive network equipment but I thought I would ask anyway. Isn't that what the internet was invented for?

Advice welcome and I really have very little knowledge on this so feel free to be blunt. (but i am only human so... )

PogMoThoin

You need a Mikrotik, an enterprise router for a normal price.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83994119&postcount=2
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80066213

Edit: You don't need wireless, all you need is this: http://routerboard.com/RB750GL
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/MIKROTIK-Routerboard-RB750-5xPORT-LAN-ROUTER-RB-750-/180730316251?pt=US_Wired_Routers&hash=item2a145dc5db#ht_4155wt_993

NettingForSale

thanks a lot, looks comprehensive to say the least. Unfortunately have exams all month so will look at it in june, that manual is thick. Unless of course there is a step by step somewhere out there . . . ( chancer :rolleyes:)

just on the percentage vs prioritizing traffic approach,any thoughts?

PogMoThoin

NettingForSale wrote: »

thanks a lot, looks comprehensive to say the least. Unfortunately have exams all month so will look at it in june, that manual is thick. Unless of course there is a step by step somewhere out there . . . ( chancer :rolleyes:)

just on the percentage vs prioritizing traffic approach,any thoughts?

You will find the Qos on a Mikrotik works out of the box, as it has ample ram and cpu, it will not get bogged down when a torrent or other streaming are running. This is an enterprise router, ISP's use them for a reason, the packet per second count is miles ahead of any household router.

NettingForSale

ok, i'll give this a try, thanks a lot!

*actually you might give me advice on the difference between the RB260s and RB750, i see they have different os and architecture but i don't know which is better for my application, apologies if you already checked this one. again, thanks.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIKROTIK-Routerboard-RB260GS-5xGbit-LAN-1xSFP-SwOS-Smart-Switch-RB-260GS-/170983209792?pt=US_Network_Switches&hash=item27cf64bb40

PogMoThoin

It's a gigabit managed switch, not a router

NettingForSale

lol... thanks

NettingForSale

Hi, sry to did this up again.

There are more people who want to join pur internet connection,totaling 7 maybe more. I was thinking about using the cisco modem in bridge mode with the following:

http://www.msdist.co.uk/product_MikroTik-RouterBOARD-RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN.php

the wireless will be handy and seems powerful. My question is whether the cisco in bridge mode is a bottleneck and is it asking too much to have 7 people sharing 100mb connection, assuming the max allowance we give everyone is 140Gb a week (total 1Tb a month for everyone). I know in theory with 100mb connection we could have around 12 megabyte a second download but I've never seen it above 3.4 megabyte a second, and I am not complaining.(!) I think giving people an allowance of 140Gb a week is plenty and it encourages people not to leave bandwidth hogging applications on. (total bandwidth,ie up and down).

the product shown previously was great but doesn't have enough ports now.

Any advice appreciated, thanks.