[Web4lib] Limiting bandwidth

[Andrew Hankinson]

I would echo the WRT54G recommendation.  I would, however, recommend
DD-WRT as a firmware choice.  From what I've seen, it's more stable
and configurable than the Sveasoft choices, and a bit friendlier to
use. (And it's free!)

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php

You can do things like 'captive portals', RADIUS authentication and
bandwidth throttling / shaping based on time of day or protocol used,
as well as other things.

Andrew

On 10/12/06, Casey Durfee <Casey.Durfee at spl.org> wrote:
> A Linksys WRT54G wireless router ($50 new) + Sveasoft firmware ( $20/year subscription ) [1] should give you what you want without having to buy and maintain a new server or an expensive router.  You can easily throttle how much bandwidth your laptop users can use and give priority to internet browsing over bittorrent, games, ftp and other traffic.
>
> The Sveasoft firmware basically transforms a $50 wireless router into a $500 one.  It's fairly well documented and easy to use.  The OpenWRT [2] firmware is similar to Sveasoft's but is totally free and less user-friendly.
>
>
> [1] http://www.sveasoft.com/content/view/2/1/
> [2] http://openwrt.org/
>
> >>> Judy McBrian <jbrian at boonvillelib.net> 10/12/2006 8:51 AM >>>
> Please excuse the cross posting.
>
> For some of you this is a dumb question, but if you don't ask you're
> never gonna learn nuthin'
>
> I want to create an inexpensive wi-fi for patrons.   The big word with
> the Board is inexpensive.
> My concern is laptop patrons using out bandwidth for things like gaming
> and downloading music files.  That is, by numbers and activities sucking
> the life out of our T1
> It's bad enough in the summer with every kid on every computer playing
> the Runewhatever game.
> (No, we don't, and no, I have NO CONTROL over what the Board decides to
> allow or not on library owned machines....)
> Does anyone have any wise words?
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