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Title: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: dalhectar on October 02, 2008, 12:13:41 PM

Let's say I want to open Guest wireless access on my DIR-655, but I wanted to apply certain limits.

First, I don't want any computer connecting via guest wireless any ability to reach any wired or non-guest 802.11n device.  (actually I think this is as simply as the check box on the page, but is that correct?)
Second, I only want guest to use port 80.
Third, I want to limit Guest connected IP devices to 100kbps throughput both up and down.

Can I do that?  How would I do that?  Also, is there a way to log guest access?

Title: Re: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: wiak on October 02, 2008, 03:35:40 PM

the first is what Guest AP is, it is its own tunnel to the internets, so your non-guest clients are on their own private network to their own tunnel to teh internets
and i agree  ;D
option to limit to diffrent ports and speed
like only port 21 (FTP) and Port 80 (HTTP)

Title: Re: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: dalhectar on October 02, 2008, 07:19:58 PM

So how do i set up a rule to only allow specific ports, especially since I don't know today what machine might log in in the guest zone?

Title: Re: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: iScape on December 01, 2008, 01:11:13 PM

+1 to the question about limiting ports and bandwidth

Title: Re: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: Lycan on December 01, 2008, 02:27:41 PM

You can not specify what types of traffic are allowed.
This is not a business class device, it's a home class router.

Title: Re: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: ttmcmurry on December 02, 2008, 08:17:10 PM

What you could do instead....

Go ahead and reserve IP addresses for your private wireless lan devices.  (DHCP Reservation)

Then set some QoS rules to give port 80 (or whatever) a higher priority for those local IPs or IP range you reserved.  So if you need the bandwidth, the router will give those devices a higher priority over other traffic. 

Conversely, you could set QoS rules for IPs outside your reserved range, give them a priority of 255 for whatever port(s) you want.  Two ways to attack the same problem.

Title: Re: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: Nnyan on March 13, 2009, 11:59:52 PM

Understand it's a home router but I don't think it's too much to ask to be able to at least limit the max bandwidth allocated to (all) guest users.

Title: Re: Limit guest access speed/internet usage
Post by: EddieZ on March 14, 2009, 06:46:54 AM

Limiting bandwidth will probably not be a realistic feature since it will require adding totaly new feature to the firmware. I also doubt if the chipset will allow this anyway.
QoS will be implementable on the guest VLAN. I think we might see this feature although I doubt it is a core feature in a home situation.