Disallowing Streaming on a campground WiFi

yes its quite easy, routers are cheap prolly less then 50 bucks to be honest depending on the wan speed.

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a better option would probably be to use opendns to block the streaming sites and a rule on the router to force users to use the dns.

you would also need to block all forms of vpn since this would allow some users to get around if they are smart enough, this coupled with qos limits would prolly stop 95% of users from streaming. nothing is 100%



mikrotik.com is the company i am specifically talking about in this example.

no its not a beginner friendly router.

Port 80 is the default HTTP port. I wouldn't recommend that one.

I can't not exactly give you such a router.. But most streaming is on port 80, you can block that, sadly that blocks some other thins as well.

Many B/G/N type routers you can set the bandwidth to 20 MHZ instead of the default (AUTO) (The choices are 20/40/auto) 20 well they can stream, but they may wish for the large economy size bottle of aspirin, that's not enough bandwith for video. I set my router to 20.. Just to save bandwidth (I do not stream but I do download and play)

jcpainter wrote:


Thoughts?

Thank you for all ideas

How tech saavy are the park owners?
If super saavy - then it can be done with lower cost.

If they're not technical, then it's going to cost more - see if there's a small computer/network shop nearby. You're going to need someone who can come by and do the initial setup with some additional followup visits.

Network configurations are rarely "one and done".

Just about any router will have QOS restrictions where you can limit connection speeds to something that would make streaming all but impossible.

If yours won't do it you can always try to install a custom firmware like DD-WRT or Tomato.

There are numerous articles on this that might be adapted to help fix your issues.

http://forums.cox.com/forum_home/internet_forum/f/5/t/14822.aspx


Anyway the method you'd likely use is to assign the DHCP IP addresses a bandwidth limit for the entire range offered clients connecting.

You can find these features in most home routers you would buy at Bestbuy, but in my experience, home equipment may cost less, but it never scales well for larger groups of people, they are meant to work well for a family sized group. In order to provide stable service, the best route is a business class router. Business class equipment comes with a cost closer to $1000 for their entry level hardware, but it will be stable (even under load), and do what you are asking and offer many ways to control your traffic, for example, you can block all traffic of the type streaming, or all traffic specifically from YouTube, you could set a rate limit of say 256kbps per user, you could give users a daily limit of say 5mpbs, you could build a portal page where they have to use a password to get access (like at a hotel), you could give business traffic priority over customer traffic etc. The three big brands that I would recommend would be Cisco (mentioned previously), Juniper, or Fortinet. The problem with the first too though is you tend to need a fair bit of skill in command line and even having numerous Cisco certifications and having worked on them for a decade and a half, I still beat my head against the wall when trying to figure out how to do some things with Cisco devices. Fortinet would be my top choice as their GUI interface is really easy to use for a business class device.

lryrob9301 wrote:
Contact these folks, they are in the business of setting up just what your wanting to do: Tengointernet

You will need a bunch of money to use that option!

Contact these folks, they are in the business of setting up just what your wanting to do: Tengointernet

If the speed is that low, it's probably impossible to stream video or maybe even music, anyway.

The library can change the router password every day and only give it out to people who come in there.

Some campgrounds just do not access to the needed backhaul necessary to let numerous folks stream at once . Not like they are in a city and have access to high speed fiber.