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We have an issue at our church I would like help with. I think I know what to do, just have never done it before, and seeing if there is anyone who might be able to make this as painless as possible. The church has two routers that service the building. Netgear N600 http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-N600-Wi-Fi-Router-WNDR3400/dp/B0041LYY6K TP-LINK Wireless 300Mbps http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-300MB...ireless+300mbps People can hook up to the wireless on Sundays freely. This was ok for a while, but the amount of connections has grown so much, the wireless is now dropping out constantly (which I assume is due to the sheer number of people connecting to it) This is an issue because the tablet based system that checks children in and out of the nursery needs the wifi to function. The easy answer is change the password and don't tell anyone what it is (my suggestion, ha ha). But, they want to continue to allow people to use the wifi, so in an effort to keep the necessary connections functional, I told them I think we should throttle the bandwidth via one of the routers and make it a "guest" connection. Maybe give them access to only 30% of the bandwidth or whatever. Basically, if their connection drops, it's not affecting the stuff vital to the function of a Sunday Morning. I am fairly familiar with networking, but haven't set up 3rd party firmware like this before. Googling the issue tells me to "Install DD-WRT on your router and make sure that you have QoS options enable QoS on a second guest router", but I was making sure this was the best option, and what the risks are, thanks. I can provide any other info you might need. TL;DR Wifi dropping due to high connection volume, need to understand how to create a guest connection with bandwidth restrictions to avoid affecting connections of vital functionality.
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Feb 17, 2015 18:40
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Geoj posted:I would hardly call providing free internet for churchgoers on sunday as a "business setting." Yeah, agreed, probably not, it's fairly small. Can I enable QoS on the default firmware and just priorities the tablet MAC address?
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Feb 17, 2015 19:27
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