purdybread
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Apologies in advance for what may be a long post.
I got called to look at a small wireless network in a rural community. It consists of 5 sites, one of which has got a fibre connection with approx 65mb/20mb. This donor site is serving 4 other sites that have very very poor broadband availability, if any at all. All was running well until the last site was added. This was a family home with a few teenagers, and as you can imagine they are hogging all the bandwidth! The other sites are starting to grumble.
Upon a quick inspection today the client sites have a mixture of nanabeams and nanostations (2 of each) and the donor site has a sector antenna acting as an access point which leads to a tp-link router that handles the IP addresses for the wireless network and the donor site, which then connects to the isp router.
None of the client sites have any guarantee of expected speeds, but some have complained that it has become basically unusable lately, especially in the evenings. One stipulation was that the donor site does have one system on the premises that requires guaranteed bandwidth of approx 10mb/5mb down and up respectively.
One other issue that I did notice is that they all seem to be on the same subnet of 172.16.0.x which I assume raises security and privacy concerns? They will be able to see each other? If this is the case it is certainly not ideal, but I presume subnetting would solve this? (my subnetting knowledge is limited)
My first thoughts are that the TP-Link router is a weak link in the setup and should be replaced immediately, and possibly the sector antenna should be handling the IP addresses?
Initially I though this shouldn't be too complicated, but having done some research this evening, the more I read the more I am confusing myself. I had thought that adding a EdgeRouter would be the first step to take but all the info I read involved a lot of CLI stuff, which is a bit beyond me at the minute. I had also thought it should be possible to split the bandwidth equally, but now I am thinking of a QOS type arrangement, were a site could get more bandwidth if available. Perhaps I am over complicating this for myself!!
I can and certainly will do more research but what I would like to ask is what path would the more experienced than myself take for this?? Any help of advice greatly appreciated.
I got called to look at a small wireless network in a rural community. It consists of 5 sites, one of which has got a fibre connection with approx 65mb/20mb. This donor site is serving 4 other sites that have very very poor broadband availability, if any at all. All was running well until the last site was added. This was a family home with a few teenagers, and as you can imagine they are hogging all the bandwidth! The other sites are starting to grumble.
Upon a quick inspection today the client sites have a mixture of nanabeams and nanostations (2 of each) and the donor site has a sector antenna acting as an access point which leads to a tp-link router that handles the IP addresses for the wireless network and the donor site, which then connects to the isp router.
None of the client sites have any guarantee of expected speeds, but some have complained that it has become basically unusable lately, especially in the evenings. One stipulation was that the donor site does have one system on the premises that requires guaranteed bandwidth of approx 10mb/5mb down and up respectively.
One other issue that I did notice is that they all seem to be on the same subnet of 172.16.0.x which I assume raises security and privacy concerns? They will be able to see each other? If this is the case it is certainly not ideal, but I presume subnetting would solve this? (my subnetting knowledge is limited)
My first thoughts are that the TP-Link router is a weak link in the setup and should be replaced immediately, and possibly the sector antenna should be handling the IP addresses?
Initially I though this shouldn't be too complicated, but having done some research this evening, the more I read the more I am confusing myself. I had thought that adding a EdgeRouter would be the first step to take but all the info I read involved a lot of CLI stuff, which is a bit beyond me at the minute. I had also thought it should be possible to split the bandwidth equally, but now I am thinking of a QOS type arrangement, were a site could get more bandwidth if available. Perhaps I am over complicating this for myself!!
I can and certainly will do more research but what I would like to ask is what path would the more experienced than myself take for this?? Any help of advice greatly appreciated.
