Overall Bandwidth Cap per SSID

[JAMES HAYNES]

Hi,

I have a 2504 controller running 8.0.100.0 code. The customer has a guest SSID and wants to cap the bandwidth being used.

I was able to create a local user account that has a bandwidth associated with it and guests are able to login and are being capped to that rate.

Now, we want to cap the overall rate. I looked at perhaps using policy on the WLAN as there is a section for bandwidth rates. However, the policy wants information such as "match string", "match EAP type" and then to pick a "device type" before the action to be taken (in this case bandwidth) can be applied.

I'd like this policy to apply to any user on any device on the WLAN. Is this possible?

Thanks for any help in advance.

-Jim 

[Leo Laohoo]

It's NOT possible.  You'll need some kind of "back end" to enforce data caps.   Some third-party hardware/software, like PurpleWiFi, can do something like this.

[JAMES HAYNES]

Hi Leo,

Thanks for the reply.

Just to be sure we are discussing the same thing we are not looking to cap the amount of data that may be downloaded but cap the overall SSID to a specific bandwidth. I have looked at Cisco's BYOD guide but I do not see the same QOS options to limit SSID bandwidth in the GUI that they show.

This is what I see:

[JAMES HAYNES]

Hmmm....the pictures didn't make it through....attached is a document with them.

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

cap the overall SSID to a specific bandwidth. 

Hmmm ...  I have a strange feeling 2504 do not support this feature.  

You may need to look at your router and instigate policy-shaping feature to get around the restriction.

[JAMES HAYNES]

Thanks, Leo. It turns out is doesn't support that feature.

Shaping on the router may be our only solution here.