All the pages on PPSK up to now did not touch much on one very important topic.

Once we give a user access to our network, we need a way to manage the bandwidth he consumes.

Both captive portal and PPPoE server has the ability to do this and it was designed with the functionality in mind.

Giving someone access to a WiFi network does not automatically enable you to manage that user's bandwidth.

Although we offer advanced features to change a user's assigned VLAN based on their usage during a specified timespan, we still need the ability to limit the speed on a VLAN.

This is where Smart Queue Management (SQM) comes in.

SQM not only allow us to limit the bandwidth on an interface to the value we choose, it also does queue management, leaving the user with a more pleasant online experience.

The philosophy of RADIUSdesk is to provide a non disruptive solution that can work along other vendors.

The following schematic shows a PPSK solution where the client opted to use PFsense to do the NAT/DHCP and bandwidth limiting:

We also offer the client the option to use OpenWrt that implements SQM.

This can then be managed through APdesk.

Since OpenWrt can run on various architectures or even on a Virtual Machine, it gives us even more options: