Best router for ~150 users with bandwidth control?

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antielite

antielite

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Hello everyone,
I am looking for a router that would be able to support at least 150 users without packet loss, or connection timeout. There will be Wifi-free zone for students.
Budget is not very big, so i need some good router with best ability-price ratio.
We have 8 Ubiquiti WIFI AP's placed, wired, configured and ready to go.

100mb/s network, there is possibility to have 300mb/s as well.

I want to do is to limit Upload/Download speed to 2mb/s for each device and in case if there will be more than 50 active users, router should work with priority and work in a smart way.
For example:
Night time - 50 active users = 2mb/s per device
Peak time - 100 active users = 1mb/s per device

I have some routers i found myself, but the thing is, I lack of experiance in Networking :(

http://routerboard.com/RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN
http://routerboard.com/CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN
etc..

Sadly there is no free space to place some PC with linux router os.. so i am trying to find a small router that will handle bandwidth-management tasks..
I will upload some details if needed.

Thank you everyone for help :)
 
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A router than can handle that many users is not the hard part. Many routers can do it. It really is more the number of sessions and is mostly a cpu speed and memory. Likely many of the better 802.11ac routers will be able to do it.

The traffic limiting is going to be the hard part. If you wanted a couple of machines to have guaranteed bandwidth many routers have abilities to do things like that. To dynamically restrict traffic is generally called a traffic shaper. The freeware tools the run on linux are somewhat limited, they work but do not do exactly what you want. The only real way to do this is to buy a commercial device. Because there are only a few that do this really well you will pay huge money for them. Think of...
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A router than can handle that many users is not the hard part. Many routers can do it. It really is more the number of sessions and is mostly a cpu speed and memory. Likely many of the better 802.11ac routers will be able to do it.

The traffic limiting is going to be the hard part. If you wanted a couple of machines to have guaranteed bandwidth many routers have abilities to do things like that. To dynamically restrict traffic is generally called a traffic shaper. The freeware tools the run on linux are somewhat limited, they work but do not do exactly what you want. The only real way to do this is to buy a commercial device. Because there are only a few that do this really well you will pay huge money for them. Think of the cost of a new car for the box plus yearly fees. Bigip is the leader in this field.
 
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