Mikrotik Limit Download Speed Guest Network ##HOT##

This documents how I was able to set up my MikroTik router with a "guest wifi" network, and then limit its total bandwidth to 1MBit, so that ifwhen the nosy neighbors' kids find it, they won't be tempted to abuse it.

The SSID (aka "network name") and password (if any) for the new guest network. I do not recommend having a guest network without encryption (and therefore without a password), simply because in many places, you can be held legally responsible for what other people do on your network.

Mikrotik Limit Download Speed Guest Network

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The IP range you're going to use for the new guest network. In this write-up I'm using 192.168.0.0/24 as the guest network, with 192.168.0.1 as the router's address within that network. If you're like me and you you tinker with your router on a regular basis, you may care what the interface names are, so it wouldn't hurt to decide on those as well.

These two networks "trust" each other, but the other non-external networks (the guest network we're setting up in this document, and another network which stays connected to a VPN at work) are not allowed to access the "trusted" networks, or vice-versa.

People on your guest network are using the same internet connection as your normal network. If your connection is metered, your guests' usage counts towards your total. And if your connection is speed-limited, guests will use part of that bandwidth, leaving less available for you.

The router is going to be acting as the DNS server for the guest network, so we should allow queries. The router's DNS server forwards any queries it receives to whatever DNS servers it was told to use by the DHCP server who assigned its external address, and caches those results (so that if the same name is queried multiple times, there's only one query to the "upstream" DNS servers.)

First create a pool of IPs which may be assigned to guests. These must be within the guest network's IP space, and must not include the router's IP. (I generally use .100 through .199 within each network for this.)

At this point, you should be able to use a phone, tablet, laptop, or other device, and see the new Wifi network. You should be able to connect to the guest wifi, and be able to "get out" to the rest of the internet.

With a "wide open" guest network, there's a pretty good chance that random people are going to connect to your network. One of the dangers is that "guests" will download or upload a bunch of large files, or stream a bunch of video, or otherwise use up so much bandwidth that it interferes with your use of your network.

One thing you can do to minimize the damage is to limit the speed of the traffic on the guest network. By choosing a limit which makes high-bandwidth usage inconvenient, but allows "normal" use (email, chat, typical web pages), you can make your guest network a less inviting target for random people to use.

The limits are specified as two numbers, separated by a /. The first number is the upload limit (i.e. how much traffic the guest network can upload to the internet), and the second one is the download limit (i.e. how much the traffic the guest network can download from the internet.)

Once you have the ID of the existing action=fasttrack-connection rule, the following commands will insert two new rules just before it, which explicitly accept traffic to and from the guest network before they can be fasttrack'ed, causing them to feed through the queueing mechanism.

good timeI set a bandwidth limit in Mikrotik(simple queues) for each IP, and now I need to set a general bandwidth limit for each of my networks.My question is how to set a 10M limit for a range like 192.168.102.0/24 and a 3M limit for each user on this network like 192.168.102.1 and 192.168.102.2 and etc. So that even if all network users start downloading, they will not be able to download more than their own network ceiling of 10M?In other words, suppose like next picture:

Update: Thanks, but this doesn't solve my main problem. The main problem is not exceeding the total bandwidth of users. Let me explain my question again with the help of mathematicsWe have 10 users and we want to give each of them a maximum speed of 3 megabytes. So, normally we need 30 megabytes, but we don't want their total speed to exceed 10 megabytes. The main problem is limiting the total bandwidth of users to 10 megabytes

As mentioned by pilsetnieks, if you could limit the guests to a specific IP range, it could be limited that way, although that may not be trivial or even possible depending on the exact hardware and setup.

This has the added benefit of splitting the guest traffic from everything else (which you really should do if it is actually guest traffic). You can use the firewall on A to allow or block traffic between the two networks if needed.

If you can limit the guests (clients using C) to specific IP addresses or subnets, you can set up a simple queue in A targeting those addresses specifically. Open the Queue section, add a new simple queue, set the target IP address (or addresses, as a subnet,) and set the download and upload limits.

Settings that turn off security, such as None, Open, or Unsecured, are also strongly discouraged. Turning off security disables authentication and encryption and allows anyone to join your network, access its shared resources (including printers, computers, and smart devices), use your internet connection, and monitor the websites you visit and other data transmitted over your network or internet connection. This is a risk even if security is turned off temporarily or for a guest network.

Wi-Fi routers usually have a limited number of IP addresses that they can assign to devices on the network. If that number is depleted, the router can't assign IP addresses to new devices, preventing those devices from communicating with other devices on the network and internet. Reducing DHCP lease time allows the router to more quickly reclaim and reassign old IP addresses that are no longer being used.

Hi, I am using CNPilots e410 for guest access in our remote hospital in Sudan. We have very limited bandwidth. We use vouchers via CNMaestro. The problem I have is people have figured out how to bypass the voucher system by using zero VPN. If I look on CNMaestro I can see clients connected on the guest access SSID, and their authentication status is false, but they are still downloading and uploading.

In addition to the base needs of a firewall which I'm sure this Sophos software firewall can do well, the reason I want to use the Sophos is to block remote access applications (Teamviewer primarily, it's a threat to my network. Please don't say that this remote access software policing a policy issue. For certain reasons, I can't control every computer in our work space. But I don't want Teamviewer to work behind my firewall on my network (even my guest network, I don't want remote access software to work). On the old Fortinet, blocking Teamviewer and a range of applications was a 10 minute configuration task.

The issue here is the 50 IP limit of the Home edition, a single box solution would mean dropping Sophos and using Mikrotik only; I feel the additional admin (which is minor: I haven't had to touch the UTM config much given it's a very simple setup in this context, 1 WAN and 1 LAN interface and a simple firewall ruleset; I admin a number of other Mikrotik boxes so am current with the solution) is outweighed by the security benefits (UTM clearly provides superior firewall protection, Mikrotik is primarily a router), plus e.g. better/easier VPN setup. (I also have a professional interest here). Using a Mikrotik device behind the firewall is a very effective way of managing the local network/IP count.

I would recommend not setting this for every authz profile. I would set a standard amount on the WLAN tab and only do this for use cases that need more bandwidth. If this is for use on a guest network, but you allow contractors to also login via the guest network, you might set the baseline bandwidth on the WLAN itself then override that with the contractor authz profile attributes.

"After verifying this with the engineering team, they said that this is not a bug and this is by designed. Orbi does not block arp packets for guest network. It means when customer is using arp scan tools, it would show the devices connected to the Orbi but it would only allow arp to go through. Other users could not access the main network or send files to the main clients."

1) The device is designed to always allow "guests" some visibility into the main network. I don't know enough about the ARP protocol to know how much information is transfered and if all the information that IPScanner finds comes through the ARP protocol.

I'm trying to be helpful to you. I'm not debating the merits of the Orbi guest network. Yes, it has holes, as you mentioned. There are other holes I've noticed that haven't been discussed here. However, NETGEAR does not intend to change it and one could argue it's perfectly adequate for the majority of home environments.

Until I got the recent tech support response, I had only seen comments that Netgear was working on it. Or silence. No one said that Netgear's idea of a guest network is a very pared down level of isolation. No one said that the "Allow guests to see each other and access my local network" option would do so if check, but would still do so to a lesser degree if unchecked. I am somewhat mad at myself for falling for the claim and being strung along for a year on false promises. If I knew then what I know now, I would have returned the Orbi.

In my testing, devices on the guest network can see other clients using tools like fing, but guest devices cannot connect via SMB or http/https protocols, so the security risk seems minimal for most home users. Especially since most home users don't give hackers or the general public acces to their guest network.

A bigger hole I found was that devices on my Orbi guest network COULD access file servers on another network that was connected to Orbi's LAN via an IPSEC VPN. I presume this is because they were on a different subnet. That's a significant hole, but one most home users won't encounter. ff782bc1db