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Need help with bandwidth management . . .

. . . on limited funds.

I will try to be concise, while providing adequate info.

I handle IT for a property management company that recently took over management of an RV park. This park provides wireless internet for the residents. Currently, the wireless system consists of 3 ez3 APs

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mounted on poles at the front, middle, and back of the park, each connected with a cat5e home run that plugs into a

10/100 unmanaged switch that connects to a Linksys WRT54G rev 2 that I flashed with dd-wrt r23 sp2. The internet pipe is a T1 provided by a local LEC. We estimate that during the summer the network will need to support 30-50 users.

There are several strategic considerations that need addressing, and the first one in my opinion is bandwidth management. Just in the last 2-3 days we've seen the inernet speed drop to a crawl when one or two users start hogging bandwidth with what appear to be massive downloads. The status tools in the APs showed download/upload ratios on these users in the 20/1 range. I've got to find a way to impose QoS on the network.

But a big issue for the company right now is cost, so I have very little budget to work with. So, if possible, I need to use whatever free and low cost solutions I can come up with.

Thank you for any assistance. Please let me know what information I've left out.