Bandwidth control per client

The bandwidth control per client allows you to limit the bandwidth per user in a specific SSID.
 

CAUTION
The feature is available starting from Classic Hotspot firmware 2.19.0

With this feature, any device connected to a specific SSID will experience a traffic shaping with an upper bound of the specified value, avoiding any bandwidth steal by high requests from other devices, which could easily end in no enough bandwidth left for everyone.
 

NOTE
It's possible to use either the  Bandwidth control per client together with the Bandwidth control per SSID or not.  
It's also compatible with the Concurrent client limitation (see: How to Limit Concurrent Clients per SSID).

 

The traffic shaping applied with this feature allows users to experience an initial "burst" of the bandwidth, allowing services like streaming videos, to easily start buffering the first seconds quickly.
In this way the overall user experience, even if limited in bandwidth, will be increased compared to a simple traffic shaping.
 

NOTE
For more technical info about the burst effect included into the bandwidth limitation, you can check this link.

 

 

How to configure the bandwidth per client

To configure the bandwidth control, follow these steps:

 

STEP 1

Once you have selected your Network, access to the WiFi SSID tab and select the SSID you want to configure.




 

STEP 2

Go to Bandwidth tab and in Bandwidth per Client section click on Enable 
Choose the  upload/download limit you desire to apply.
Click on Apply  to save and  upload your new configuration.




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