There is One Internet connection into a Student Share House but one student needs a lot more Bandwidth and pays a bigger share of the bill. Also, the big downloads degrade the performance everybody else.
Share the Internet Bandwidth appropriately between the Students (ie unequal quantity & equal quality)
Assign a fixed static IP address to each device (mobile, laptop etc) and keep the static IPs for each person together in a group.
| DHCP | |
|---|---|
| ☑ LAN DHCP Server Enabled | |
| DHCP range Start 192.168.1.100 End: 192.168.1.249 |
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| Static IP's | |
| Bob-laptop | 192.168.1.50 |
| Bob-mobile | 192.168.1.51 |
| Jill-laptop | 192.168.1.60 |
| Jill-mobile | 192.168.1.61 |
| Kate-laptop | 192.168.1.70 |
| Kate-mobile | 192.168.1.71 |
Assign a share of the monthly download cap to each student.
| Bandwidth Quotas | |
|---|---|
| 192.168.1.50-192.168.1.59 | Max Total Download = 20GB/month |
| 192.168.1.60-192.168.1.69 | Max Total Download = 20GB/month |
| 192.168.1.70-192.168.1.79 | Max Total Download = 60GB/month |
| All Hosts without Explicit Quota's (Combined)1) | Max Total Download = 100MB/day |
| QoS (Upload) – Classification Rules | |
|---|---|
| ☑ Enable Quality of Service (Upload Direction) | |
| QoS (Download) – Classification Rules | |
|---|---|
| ☑ Enable Quality of Service (Download Direction) | |
| QoS (Download) – Active Congestion Control | |
| ☑ Enable active congestion control (Download Direction) |