In this tutorial we will set the MikroTik equipment to share the available Internet bandwidth equally among the users of our network as in the diagram below.
1. Accessing the MikroTik router (WebFig)
- Login in browser to the adress http://192.168.88.1/ with the admin user and the proper password.
2. Sharing bandwidth evenly between users through the implementation of queues (limitations)
- To be able to distribute evenly the traffic between the users of a network it is necessary ho have two types of limitations, one for the download traffic type and one for upload.
- Go to the menu Queues -> Queue Types and add a new type of limitation.
- Set the name and the type of the download limitation.
- Set the parameters for the new limitation type (download) as in the next image.
- Add a new limitation type for upload.
- Set the parameters for the new limitation type (upload) as in the next image.
- It is noticeable now that we have 2 types of limitatios, one for the download traffic and one for the upload traffic. Each one will be applied for each network user (the traffic that has PCQ queues will be divided evenly between all the IPs that have queues applied).
3. Applying the queues (limitations) for the network users
- Go to the menu Queues -> Simple Queues and create a new, simple limitation.
- Apply the two new types of limitations over the local network.
In this moment the router will assign to each network user a maximum speed of 100Mbps and in the situation in which there will be more users that will use the 100 Mbps Internet capacity, the speed will be distributed evenly among them thanks to the types of queues applied on the network traffic.
Notă: The traffic control takes place within the types of queues, it is normal that at theUpload Max Limit and Download Max Limit it is written unlimited.
