I feel like I wouldn't just default to opening HN and reddit all the time on my phone if I knew it was bandwidth capped to dial-up speeds. But if there was something critical there, I would still have access.
HN looks like it would do well back in the 14.4 dial-up days. Hell, it would probably be okay using an I/O port on an arduino at 9600baud
The "only for certain devices" part would probably mean putting those devices in a VLAN and only shaping that VLAN's uplink.
A router like pfsense should be able to do all of that.
But I am far from a network engineer, so don't quote me...
Not necessarily...if you're not using ESNI, then the traffic shaper could sniff the server name from the client hello message, then use the TCP sequence numbers to track the individual TCP connection.
Not a chance.
There is a possibility that the TCP sequence numbers between the two connections overlap, but it's so unlikely as to be negligible.
I'm just spitballing. My bona fides are nothing more than memories of reading about the upside-down-ternet and fiddling with primitive QoS features on elderly routers, but I'm sure this is the right post on the right forum to get a real solution.
But you're spot on regarding effort/learning.
Are you buying 10GBASE-T equipment or something?
2 APs - $200
8 port switch - $150
That's less than I'd spend personally.
If the Pi isn't the gateway (which it likely isn't) that's not going to be trivial. Even if it was, fiddling with iptables isn't exactly easy. How are you going to identify devices? MAC? DHCP reservations? Static IPs? That's not a trivial project.
How are you going to identify devices? MAC? DHCP reservations? Static IPs?
Yes.
That's not a trivial project.
I do this stuff all the time, it's not rocket surgery.
I have many hardwired devices, they may not.
I need two APs as I live in an older house and I get crappy reception in my basement. I also want a guest and IoT network so I chose to use VLANs to segregate, which requires switching and APs that can do that.
Yes, if you do this all the time (I do too) it's not that hard. But it's certainly not a beginner project.
This is the only European based vendor I'm aware of, aside PCEngines, whose hardware is excellent but not comparable wrt performance for heavy use. I'm sure there are cheaper similar solutions, especially from far east; also some interesting offers from the US and UK although shipping and import fees make them a lot less appealing (for us in the EU).