Simple Queue Bandwidth Management in Mikrotik

If you have a local network with many clients, you need to manage your bandwidth allocation for each user so there is no user dominates the traffic and makes other users becoming annoyed because they get unexpected internet speed.

In Mikrotik RouterOS, it has a feature called Queues. You can manage your bandwidth with it, so your clients will get the same bandwidth fairly and nobody will dominates the others.

The easiest way to implement bandwidth management in Mikrotik RouterOS is using Simple Queue. We can set download and upload limitation based on client's IP address.

EXAMPLE

We are going to set a limitation to client who has IP address : 192.168.10.2 and his maximum download speed is 512 Kbps and maximum upload speed is 128Kbps. So, open your winbox and go to Queues on the left menu. On Simple Queue bar, click the "Plus" button on the left top which is colored with blue.

After you click the "Plus" button, will be shown a fields like these above picture. So, you can fill all required fileds like this :

• Name : Client 192.168.10.2
• Target : 192.168.10.2
• Target Upload : 128 Kbps
• Target Download 512 Kbps

For better illustration, make sure you fill all required fields like this :

After that, click OK button and your bandwidth management with Simple Queue should be worked.

Actually, Target Address is not supposed to be a specific IP address, but you may to set a network address or IP address range.

• Single IP (192.168.10.2)
• Network IP (192.168.10.0/24)
• Several IPs (192.168.10.2, 192.168.10.3) with click little down arrow button on target address field.

With this configuration, targeted address will get the maximum download and upload like the planned number as long there is enough bandwidth from Internet Service Provider.