Refer to www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service It would appear as
if some users are doing big downloads and setting the priority to BULK may
let them use bandwidth remaining from other "normal" users. Quite a bit of
tuning is available in the QoS section of DD-WRT. You may also wish to
upgrade to RC6 or 7 also.

It may be necessary to impose some user restrictions to basic browsing and
emails and no bittorrent or streaming videos etc. In a shared public arena,
this is not unreasonable. Again DD-WRT is very good.

Peter

"JM" <jake@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> . . . on limited funds.
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> I will try to be concise, while providing adequate info.
>
> I handle IT for a property management company that recently took over
> management of an RV park. This park provides wireless internet for the
> residents. Currently, the wireless system consists of 3 ez3 APs
> (http://www.e-zy.net/outdoor/3plus/) mounted on poles at the front,
middle,
> and back of the park, each connected with a cat5e home run that plugs into
a
> 10/100 unmanaged switch that connects to a Linksys WRT54G rev 2 that I
> flashed with dd-wrt r23 sp2. The internet pipe is a T1 provided by a
local
> LEC. We estimate that during the summer the network will need to support
> 30-50 users.
>
> There are several strategic considerations that need addressing, and the
> first one in my opinion is bandwidth management. Just in the last 2-3
days
> we've seen the inernet speed drop to a crawl when one or two users start
> hogging bandwidth with what appear to be massive downloads. The status
> tools in the APs showed download/upload ratios on these users in the 20/1
> range. I've got to find a way to impose QoS on the network.
>
> But a big issue for the company right now is cost, so I have very little
> budget to work with. So, if possible, I need to use whatever free and low
> cost solutions I can come up with.
>
> Thank you for any assistance. Please let me know what information I've
left
> out.
>
> JM
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