Enable per-user bandwidth restriction

itson

when Enable per-user bandwidth restriction is set, and suppose i have only one username Guest,
if 5 people connect to guest, then these 5 people will have their own settings for "Enable per-user bandwidth restriction" or the user account Guest will be shared for anyone who connects with the username Guest?

zikmen

are you talking about the captive portal?

Zikmen

sradas

I didn't find closer topic on the forum, so I have to bring this up.
So, if Captive Portal user can login from multiple devices (say laptop and smartphone), does "per-user bandwidth" limit applies on every device separately where user logs in OR all devices logged by users name share that limit?
Thanks

You could try out the Squid Proxy for this action, with user authentication and create for each user/device
an account to handle this proper.

sradas

Thanks for the info, but before any additional installations/configurations, I would like to know how this pfSense feature works, either limits bandwidth on IP or user level.

muswellhillbilly

@sradas:

I didn't find closer topic on the forum, so I have to bring this up.
So, if Captive Portal user can login from multiple devices (say laptop and smartphone), does "per-user bandwidth" limit applies on every device separately where user logs in OR all devices logged by users name share that limit?
Thanks

It applies per device - so, say you set a per login limit of 4Mb - If one user logs in with a laptop and his smartphone, both his laptop and smartphone will have 4Mb each.

If you don't want to use a captive portal then you could try traffic shaping instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usi195rK35I

sradas

OK, thanks. That answered my question.