DNS forwarder, resolver or both
-
No its not really. To be honest if the reason you want to use proxy is save some bandwidth.. Prob not going to get much bang for your buck.. Pretty much most of the net these days is dynamic and doesn't bode well for cached copy on your proxy. While clients cache themselves anyway so most of the stuff that can be cached and use is already done on the client.
If what your wanting to use if for is filtering of bad stuff, ok – but if this is a guest wifi for a hotel, why would it be your place to say what porn they can or can not watch, etc..
Captive portal sure ok, you don't want the homeless guy outside sucking up all your bandwidth which is for your guest to use, etc. And you can use the portal page to remind your guests of stuff going on in the hotel, how to get info etc. So that sort of thing I don't think any one that is using free hotel wifi would complain about.
But if what you want to do is just limit the non guest from using your wifi, its much easier to just set a PSK and change it everyday or few days and just make it easy for your guest to get without the homeless guy outside just looking at it on your bulletin board. I have been to hotels where the psk is on the little envelope they put your key in, etc.
-
I understand you, disabling the proxy is done in seconds.. it was more because the non guest are taking all the bandwidth away…
if you have 75Mbps and you cant get over 10Mbps and sometimes 2Mbps it's an issue, thats why I wanted to have a proxy ready because of the slow bandwidth.. and there 60 rooms not the biggest hotel but everything that can be faster is something..
now that users need a voucher or pass it should be much better.. this I have to try out, if the speed is fast enough I disable the proxy and use it only for CP..thanks for the advice..
What would be your advice to improve the pfsense even better?
-
60 rooms? how many AP do you only provide wifi in the lobby or something? So lets say 120 guests. Lets count 1 phone each your looking at 120 devices if your full could be more. I would say this would be min number of devices, etc.
Are you limiting each connection. Or you could have 1 guest using up most of the bandwidth.. So lets say a few guests are streaming movies in HD from netflix.. Are they on the same AP?
You need to be able to spread your connections over multiple AP and to be honest 75mbps seems like a pretty low amount of bandwidth for 120 users to share, etc. At even 60 sharing its not very much.. People be so frustrated with it they would just use their phones data.
-
I know 75Mbps (I see 100Mbps is available) isn't much but not possible to get more unless you have a 2nd wan connection to double the bandwidth I am limited to what I have got.
We have around 7 AP's around the hotel, how it is connected I do not know I havent installed it.
At this moment people rate us with a 7.2 for internet and this is with guests and non guest together.. after the CP it should be better..I was also calculating how many rooms and guests that can use internet, and an option would be a 2nd WAN or limiting the bandwitdh to say 10Mbps for each user (i know it isnt much) or is there a package that calcuates the users and devide it with the current users connected?
-
What are these AP? you really should understand where they are deployed and if they are deployed in the best locations for best coverage.
If your limited to 75 per line, then yeah get a few lines you can always split your users across the different connection. You could even leverage that to provide for "premium" wifi that cost something, etc.
-
What I can see they are linksys and hp pro curve AP's in total 7 of them 2 on each floor that have an overall good coverage on every floor.
The extra line I need to have a talk about with the management to see what is possible, while after talking to them they have around 20/30 guests daily means 2 to 3Mbps each guest which isn't that much.
and a double WAN 150Mbps or if they have the 100Mbps that would be 200Mbps should be good enough to have a decent internet.
Only wifi should be free, not sure who pays for internet nowaday unless you live in AustraliëWould like to know more about stuff.. not sure if this is the right chat for it
-
Are they actual business AP or just home stuff? Proper placement for best coverage would normally mean setting up min rssi for each AP so that they don't let weak connections that drag everyone on it down.
As to paying for internet, you mean wifi in a hotel? I will agree many hotels provide basic wifi for free. Unless your at a higher end hotel - they guys seems to charge you.. You would think it would be the other way around. But when I stay at say a real hilton vs hampton inn which one of their properties Hampton is free but Hilton or say Conrad charge you.. Along with the 5$ for the bag of MM's in your room hehehe
What I mean by premium is would be faster connection, maybe allow for real IP vs being behind a nat if you need to use a vpn connection to work that doesn't play nice behind nat, etc.
What are these APs - are they G, N 2.4 and 5 or just 2.4? AC maybe?
There is much more too providing good wifi then throwing up some AP ;)
-
I have no clue if they are business or home AP's, I will be there this weekend to test drive the new pfsense and can check, also if they are 2.4 or 5 or both, the technician will be there its easy to have him pointing where they are :)
As for paying I meant Wifi, here in Europe like Holland the internet contracts can be pretty fast over 500Mbps and more, belgium is another story and some providers have 120Mbps max for business that isn't much, Belgium also works with a limit with some contrats while Holland does not.
Setting up min rssi is a basic option in the AP?
-
would be if business class sort of AP
-
I have set the DNS forwarder but for some reason the LAN comupters can only see each other by IP, which option should I pick to be able to search by name as well?