Hey all, I’m working in a LAN environment with around 50 to 80 PCs, mostly gaming machines, on a 2 Gbps connection. We set up Simple Queues per client IP to control bandwidth so that people downloading large updates or games would not cause others who are actively playing to lag. Most clients were limited to about 100 Mbps down and 40 Mbps up, with a few left unlimited. Under heavier load, especially when multiple users were downloading or uploading, we noticed latency spikes and some packet loss, but it did not affect every machine equally. We were using the Cloud Core Router CCR-1016 12g, we upgraded to CCR2116-12g-4s+
I’m still getting into this and trying to understand what’s really happening here, and honestly it’s made me want to learn more about networking and MikroTik specifically. From your experience, is this expected behavior with Simple Queues at this scale, or does it point more toward a configuration issue? I’d really appreciate insight from those with more experience on what’s actually going on and what a better approach would be.