Suggestion for Bandwidth management
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Hey guys,
Thank you for your input on my toppic.
I am currently working out the best solution for bandwidth management. Basically we have 10 Mbps broadband. It uses for work proposes and we have some team member live on site as well.
The issue here is that when someone off duty using Netflix or bittorrent for example. It consumes the bandwidth, I am aware that Pfsense has traffic shaper to solve this issue but it only prioritise type of traffics but not divide the bandwidth equality to each device.Someone suggest me to use Draytek router which has bandwidth limit automatic option. So far I understand, there is function how much I give bandwidth per divide but if that divide need more bandwidth it will send more bandwidth from the pool. Also I can set time such as 8am - 5pm the priority will go to Workstation and after 5 pm it will give bandwidth to team members who live on base.
My question is there anyway I can set Pfsense to do similar things as Draytek function
Or
Other solution
Is it possible to set Traffic shaper to raise priority for workstation during work hour and give Priority to team member after work hour at the same time lower priority for Netflix and Bittorrent user.Wow guys I hope I am not so confusing. Thank you a lot for reading through this. I am still new to all this.
Please feel free to leave your idea. I am open to any solution that it works. I am very happy to hear different idea.
Thank you again :D
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Priorities rarely give you what you want. HFSC allows you to set minimum amounts of bandwidth but also share unused bandwidth. Splitting bandwidth sounds nice, but many times just getting rid of bufferbloat is all you need, so use CoDel. I think HFSC+CoDel is pretty much anyone really needs.
Perfect is the enemy of good. The more perfect control you want, the more complicated your setup will be.
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Hi Thank you so much for your reply. I will do some more research on your answer.