Can Wifi APs get overwhemed by torrent connections ..?
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Put a limiter on them so they can't monopolize the bandwidth.
You generally do not have to worry about client density in such an environment (given decent wi-fi gear) because the physical obstructions (walls, etc) mean that not enough clients can reach each AP so as to overwhelm them.
It sounds like many of your questions are better-suited for the wi-fi vendor of your choice. (based on past experience I would pick ubiquiti over engenius and ruckus over either).
190 users is nothing as far as pfSense is concerned, but pfSense captive portal has no way to limit a user to just two devices. It is either one or as many as they want per login. You could use a single-device voucher portal and give each user two.
Anything with a 3GHz clock should be fine. Use Intel NICs. Broadcom-based server NICs (such as pulls from Dell servers) have never given me a problem either.
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Thank you Derelict for replying, would need a suggestion .
For the discussed location what are your thoughts about :-
1. Ubiquity Unifi AP AC Lite vs Tp-Link EAP 245.
2. Ubiquity Unifi AP AC Pro vs Tp-Link EAP 330.
regards,
Ashima -
TP link wouldn't even make bottom of the long list. There is no chance would use tplink even if they were FREE…
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At the very least: s/tplink/dlink/
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You might be better looking at the Ubiquity UAP-AC-IW or UAP-AC-IW-PRO in wall models, if you need to provide ethernet into each room.
https://inwall.ubnt.com/
I'd be tempted to use the Ubiquity for the captive portal / guest control, vouchers can be created quite easily via an app on a smart phone or via a web page on a PC, it even supports different payment types if required.
ISP-A (150Mbps) segmented for 3 Floors.
ISP-B ( 80Mbps) segmented for 1 Floor.
ISP-C ( 40Mbps) as a failover for either ISP-A or ISP-BAre you going to have 2 different SSIDs, one for guests on floors 1 - 3 and the other for floor 4, if you just have the one SSID they'll have problems if they roam between the floors as the internet address will change between the floors.
If you have two the user's will moan when the have to connect to the other SSID :)
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Thank you all for replying. So a big NO to TPlink.
@NogBadTheBad, All the three ISPs will be connected to pfsense. All the Aps will be connected to this box.
The first 200 dhcp clients will use ISP A the next 50 clients will use ISP B. So depending upon the ip address ISP will be decided by pfsense.
Will be using same SSID across.
Is there any thing else I need to take care.
Regards,
Ashima -
"The first 200 dhcp clients will use ISP A the next 50 clients will use ISP B."
Huh?? So if your client 201 your golden you get isp all to your self with all the bandwidth… But if your 200 its going to blow because your sharing bandwidth with 199 others?
Why would you not load share across all the isp connections?
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Well, there will be an upload and download speed restriction through captive portal / freeradius for every user.
I guess this would prevent any one of them eat up the entire bandwidth. Is there any thing else I need to take care.
I am not load balancing as ISP A is at 150 Mbps Up/Down and ISP B is at 30 Mbps up/down and ISP C is at 15Mbps/40Mbps Up/Down
So I thought ip based routing would be better. Am I right on this concept ?
Regards,
Ashima -
Never understand the point of such connections… Why would you not have your isp connections close in performance... I can understand maybe having a connection slower for a "backup" link that is cheaper than primary.. Those 3 widely different speeds seems very odd at best..
Wouldn't it be better to say get 2 connections from the A isp so you had a total of 300 up/down to work with?
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Yes we can take 2 connections from same ISP. My doubt :
Since Its a broadband connection 150 Mbps dn & up both ways , the contention ratio is expected to be 1:16 & having same gateway unlike a Leased Line Connection with contention ratio 1:1 or 1:2 .
Are there any issues that you perceive & foresee to crop up . . . ?
regards,
Ashima
