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Networking Solutions For My Guests

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  • Management
  • Networking
  • Limit Bandwidth
  • Wireless Network
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October 13, 2014 12:42:12 AM

I am going to have a workshop at my office for 80 people soon, and I need a way I can handle the load of all those extra laptops and smartphones.

Does limiting bandwidth on the router give better consistent connections to everyone? In any case, I don't want anyone using my connection during the workshop to download their personal stuff...

Secondly, there will be an offsite workshop soon, and that place does not have Internet at the moment. I am considering using a 4G USB modem paired to my router, which has 4G modem capability. I am not worried about the transfer rate, nor quotas, and I know user management is dependent on the router. However, I am still concerned that the USB Modem wouldn't be able to take the load for whatever reason. Is this concern valid?

Thank you all.

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October 13, 2014 12:57:19 AM

You have 2 issues. The larger is the total number of wireless connections. The recommended maximum is 10 active per router/ap. "active" is very subjective 1 user can max a connection by themselves at times. The largest issues is at some point so many people are attempting to use the wireless bandwidth it just cascades into nobody getting anything at all. There is no easy solution to this. You would likely be best off getting a couple more routers and using them as AP to increase the total number of radios you have. You need to place them on different channels and then you still have the hard part of finding a way to divide your users between them.

If you can get as many as possible to use wired connection to a switch it will greatly reduce you wireless bandwidth issues.

Content filtering tends to be a very tricky thing to do. Generally when you start talking as large as you are you will need to use a firewall or proxy to do this rather than just your router. Routers just do not have the CPU power to filter that much traffic. You could try opendns which in effect outsources the filter to a remote server but it is trivial to bypass this.

I suspect the 4g modem is the least of your worries. These can easily withstand quite a bit of traffic. We use them as backup connection to some of out smaller locations and even with a vpn over the top of them they perform well..... I suspect because it is so expensive to use you have much less abuse by the bandwidth hogs.
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