[MLB-WIRELESS] DuxMaster gateway (was Re: BarCampMelbourne: Getting internet access for a weekend)

[mw at freenet.net.au]

G'day Ben,

Sure - the base system can throttle on hitting excess downloads, and the
Mikrotik system under the hood can do any kind of QoS that you need.

Cheers,  Mike.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au [mailto:melbwireless-
> bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Ben Balbo
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2009 12:07 PM
> To: Melbourne Wireless
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] DuxMaster gateway (was Re: BarCampMelbourne:
> Getting internet access for a weekend)
> 
> > Just means that if there's anyone else nearby who picks up the network
> > not involved with your group, won't hijack off the connection and use
> > and abuse it.
> 
> We'd be using a pre-shared key for authentication to wireless, so this
> isn't a huge issue for me, but on a related note, I don't want authorised
> people abusing the system too.
> 
> Is it possible to configure this system to not throttle anyone unless the
> connection comes close to saturation, and then throttle people to equal
> portions of available capacity? If so, can specific machines (by MAC or IP
> addresses) be excluded from throttling?
> 
> Perhaps this could be trivially achieved through QoS on the WRT though,
and
> I'm just looking for excuses to use the DuxMaster ;)
> 
> Thanks!
> BB