Rate limit a wireless interface

Posted by Jamie Hankins on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jamie Hankins
Published on 2012-12-09T03:30:33Z Indexed on 2012/12/09 5:06 UTC
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I have access to my routers SSH and IPTables. I want to rate limit my guest network to 1Mb/s so they can't guzzle my bandwidth.

rai1      RTWIFI SoftAP  ESSID:"GuestNetwork"  Nickname:""
      Mode:Managed  Channel=6  Access Point: :F9
      Bit Rate=300 Mb/s

wdsi0     RTWIFI SoftAP  ESSID:"YouCan'tTouchThis"  Nickname:""
      Mode:Managed  Channel=6  Access Point: :F8
      Bit Rate=300 Mb/s

wdsi1     RTWIFI SoftAP  ESSID:"YouCan'tTouchThis"  Nickname:""
      Mode:Managed  Channel=6  Access Point: :F9
      Bit Rate=300 Mb/s

wdsi2     RTWIFI SoftAP  ESSID:"YouCan'tTouchThis"  Nickname:""
      Mode:Managed  Channel=6  Access Point: Not-Associated
      Bit Rate:300 Mb/s

wdsi3     RTWIFI SoftAP  ESSID:"YouCan'tTouchThis"  Nickname:""
      Mode:Managed  Channel=6  Access Point: Not-Associated
      Bit Rate:300 Mb/s

I'm just wondering the command I need to limit it. I tried the iwconfig limit command but it failed.

Thanks

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