topic Bandwidth shaping in Wireless

Bandwidth shaping

Jeza-925 — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:20:23 GMT

Hi all,

I'm currently looking for a way to limit bandwidth speed in our Meraki wifi network. We are having 50+ locations, same setup on all, two SSIDs, but the problem is that not all location have same internet link.

My question are, can I globally set internet speed per SSID based on % ? I want SSID-1 to use 75% of bandwidth and SSID-2 to use 25% ?

Or do I need to go from location to location and set it manually per AP (Wireless > Firewall and Traffic Shaping > Choose SSID > apply traffic shaping rules) ?

Any other ideas are welcome!

Regards,

Boza

Re: Bandwidth shaping

Philip D'Ath — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:57:07 GMT

You can only configure a specified limit, not a percentage. It can be configured per SSID.

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Global_Bandwidth_Limit_Considerations#Per-SSID_Bandwidth_Limits

Re: Bandwidth shaping

BBETTE — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:58:52 GMT

You will need to go each Firewall & traffic shaping > Traffic shaping rules > Per-SSID bandwidth limit.

Alternatively, you can bind your existing networks to a template and do it all in one go.

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Templates_and_Config_Sync/Managing_Multiple_Networks_with_Configuration_Templates

Re: Bandwidth shaping

CMR — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:51:50 GMT

@Jeza-925 please note that the bandwidth limit per SSID is actually per AP per SSID.

As an example: You have 30x APs and they all advertise SSID 'public', if you set a limit for that SSID to 1Mbps then you could have as much as 30Mbps of traffic.

Re: Bandwidth shaping

Jeza-925 — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:12:51 GMT

Thank you all for your help. Solution with templates that was suggested by @BBETTE is what I was looking for!

@CMR thank you as well for your info, I didn't know that.

Regards,

Boza