Cap/Split Internet Connection Bandwidth
Hello,
We are school division who is hosting more and more of our applications from our head office. All offsite locations (schools) are connected to the head office via an ipsec vpn. The offsite locaitons have a internet connection of 1.5 Mb/s up and 1.5 Mb/s Down. At times students use the labs to surf the internet which at times eats up our whole pipe which then slows down any application office staff are using. At times the office can get slowed down to a crawl. Is there anyway to split up the internet connection so sudents can only use 1 MB and the office is always gauranteed the .5 Mb/s so they do not experince the slowdown?
Thanks
We are school division who is hosting more and more of our applications from our head office. All offsite locations (schools) are connected to the head office via an ipsec vpn. The offsite locaitons have a internet connection of 1.5 Mb/s up and 1.5 Mb/s Down. At times students use the labs to surf the internet which at times eats up our whole pipe which then slows down any application office staff are using. At times the office can get slowed down to a crawl. Is there anyway to split up the internet connection so sudents can only use 1 MB and the office is always gauranteed the .5 Mb/s so they do not experince the slowdown?
Thanks
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Thanks for the response.
Each school has its own 1.5 mb internet connections. The schools either have an astaro box or a ipcop firewall.
Only vpn traffic goes to the head office. If its not for vpn it goes straight to the internet via the schools connection.
We have no vlans.
Each school has its own 1.5 mb internet connections. The schools either have an astaro box or a ipcop firewall.
Only vpn traffic goes to the head office. If its not for vpn it goes straight to the internet via the schools connection.
We have no vlans.
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I found a QoS where I could cap the download speed for diffrent protocols on our ipcop boxes. So I am going to cap all traffic a few Mb under my limit and allow HTTPS the full pipe. I think this should work.
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