Bandwidth control in libraries

[Mutch, Andrew]

Carol,

 

M0n0wall has some traffic shaping and bandwidth limiting features if you
want that as part of an all-in-one captive portal/firewall/DHCP server
solution for a wired or wireless network. Although I haven't used the
bandwidth throttling features yet, I know people who have and have been
satisfied with how it works. 

 

http://m0n0.ch/wall/

 

Andrew Mutch

Library Systems Technician

Waterford Township Public Library

Waterford, Michigan

 

 

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Bandwidth control in libraries

 

Yes, those do look interesting. Must take a closer look. 

 

Thanks!

Carol

 

On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Steffen Schilke wrote:





You might want to look at:

 

http://seriousbit.com/netbalancer/

 

on Linux Trickle
http://www.tecmint.com/manage-and-limit-downloadupload-bandwidth-with-tr
ickle-in-linux/

 

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Carol Bean <beanworks at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Cary,

 

I hadn't heard about MicroTek.  The situations I had in mind involve
WIFI routers, so this looks interesting indeed.

 

Thanks,

Carol

 

On Aug 4, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:





Bandwidth shaping solutions require a combination of hardware and
software, and there are lots of them.

I am a fan of MicroTek <http://www.mikrotik.com/>, a company that builds
software for single-board routers from RouterBoard. Their products are
inexpensive and they work. They also require a degree of comfort with
the Linux command line. Their entry level product, the RB750
<http://routerboard.com/RB750>, costs $40 and is intended for SOHO use.
It might not support a larger operation, but for the price, you could
use it to evaluate its suitability. Their higher-end products are also
very fairly priced.

 

These are wired routers and would be used with access points, or WiFi
routers configured as APs.

 

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Carol Bean <beanworks at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello folks,

 

I am finding a lot of old (like 5 years ago) information on what
libraries do to control excessive bandwidth usage (e.g., from viewing
video sites), but I don't see anything recent.  If you are using
something for bandwidth management, I'd love to hear about it,
especially if it involves libraries with limited resources.

 

Thanks for any help,

Carol

 

Carol Bean
beanworks at gmail.com

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