Router OS

[philaniH]

Hello Guys

Since i got my 5mbps 1:1 fibre ,my geeky guys in the hood wanna connect, got a picostation up. Now i gave them the password, all of a sudden, dhcp has 21 leases when i gave only two guys, i wanna get a mikrotik router from scoop to run a hotspot. but now i dont know which router os level do i need to print out 1000 vouchers since i see a limitation of 200 users on the level 4 one, which one should i get?

Thanks

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Why would you need more than 200 users?

 

[MDE]

Don't let your provider know otherwise they'll cancel your connection.

 

[philaniH]

Why would you need more than 200 users?

over time not at a time

 

[koeksGHT]

Don't let your provider know otherwise they'll cancel your connection.

Or get a fine for no license.

 

[philaniH]

Don't let your provider know otherwise they'll cancel your connection.

Haha, noted, who governs a trully uncapped 5mbps line, this is amg to web browsers

 

[Hamish McPanji]

over time not at a time

So you can delete and and users as you need to.

Anyway, mikrotik apparently allows for 200 active hotspot users on license level 4 .http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:License
So shouldn't be a problem for your fledgling ISP

 

[breacher]

With 5 Mbps connection, and a couple of users (21?) - no one's gonna have a uber great experience, so don't spend to much, also some licensed operators in area might inform ICASA - for what that's worth :wtf:

 

[Hamish McPanji]

With 5 Mbps connection, and a couple of users (21?) - no one's gonna have a uber great experience, so don't spend to much, also some licensed operators in area might inform ICASA - for what that's worth :wtf:

He said 1:1 . I assumed contention ratio, which can be shared well.
Now that i look again, it might be symmetrical rather

 

[philaniH]

21 is all the tablets they must have been updated and their smart Tv's

 

[Hamish McPanji]

21 is all the tablets they must have been updated and their smart Tv's

Tablets, phones, computers, TV's , media boxes,printers.....nowadays everything is connected.

At my office the dlink kept chucking people of the network and couldn't figure our why. We had recently employed someone new, and realised the the soft limit of number of wifi clients was being reached at those times when we were all in the office. There was an average of 4 devices per person

 

[MR.C]

Change your password, no ?

 

[philaniH]

Change your password, no ?

same process

 

[Tweebeenvis]

PFsense.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

PFsense.

Loaded on what device? And does it do hotspotting like mikrotik does?

 

[Tweebeenvis]

Pretty much any old pc or laptop. They also have a nanoBSD version if you running off flash memory.
https://www.pfsense.org/download/

You can set up a hotspot with captive portal and print tickets.

 

[flying_sheep]

Stick with Mikrotik and get a RB951, set ether 5 for hotspot and start creating users and set limits for each lease. Problem solved.