My Wifi Posts have been wrong!! I admit it.

creeper wrote:

Snowman9000 wrote:
Is there no good way to restrict usage per camper to some X megabytes per day?

It's actually very easy to do. If they have commercial grade system. I've never looked into Megabytes per day, but limiting the rate they consume so everyone can share is very easy.

BUT, I can see how much each user has used and dump them from my system anytime I wish.

Update: just looked into limiting x number of megabytes per users and yes it can be done as long as your system supports it. Mine does. I think I'll limit my wife and see what she thinks.

A couple of clicks and it's all done.



Most wifi and routers are set up wrong.

This actually doesn't help in park situations. The data requests will just stack up, actually slowing the system down further. The problem is in a RV Park situation, people are totally content to start downloads or uploads and just walk away. So it takes an hour to send granny 100 photos or 3 minutes of HD video you shot, you don't care. However, wifi is not a steady stream. There are times when the demand exceeds the capacity of the network, and then a few seconds later the system is totally idle. If you go with the simple bandwidth throttles, the system cannot "burst" data in those idle periods, so the downloads and uploads take longer. This wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that all wifi communications are two way, all the time. Your download constantly asks your computer if you are receiving the data. The longer the download takes, the more of these communications must be sent, increasing the traffic.