We all share two 1Mb satellite connections here in our mesh. But since mine is always more hops aways from most of the users they tend to go to the single 1Mb gateway, so we're starting to experience really slow, some times, unusable internet.

We're already using a captive-portal system to block unwanted users, so now all I can think of is of controlling the bandwidth traffic. So I came across the sqm package. Seems to be easy way to controlling the traffic.

Anyone have any experience with using this package? Any other solutions, like using squid? Ideally we'd want to throttle videos, Bittorrent and other bandwidth suckers.