Gain granular control of your bandwidth usage with rate limiting

August 2024

Ondrej Fabry
Jacob Mischka

At Meter, we’ve reimagined internet, Wi-Fi, and networking from the ground up. As part of this, we’ve been highly purposeful in creating a vertically integrated stack — across hardware, software, and operations — that enables us to maintain a high velocity of feature releases.

We're excited to introduce a powerful new capability to the Meter dashboard: rate limiting. This feature will soon be integrated with the rest of your enterprise controls, allowing for precise configuration of network traffic and improved performance customization. Leverage this tool to gain peace of mind by preventing network overload and subsequent downtime, and save you time and money as you navigate managing your network.

Ensure bandwidth equity and mitigate risk with rate limiting

You asked, we answered. We’ve continually heard about the need for rate limiting, sometimes referred to as bandwidth shaping, from many customers across education institutions, co-working spaces, and 3PL firms — now it’s here.

By controlling the rate of incoming or outgoing requests, you will be able to ensure your users have fair access to network resources, minimize strain on servers, and better protect your network from DoS and DDoS attacks by limiting the rate of incoming requests. Rate limiting also can help guarantee your guest networks do not weigh down your network by providing the appropriate bandwidth.

Meter customers may now shape bandwidth to the granularity of Kbps, specify rates for individual VLANs, and select limits to or from local client subnets and remote destinations, respectively.

Network
2700 18th St
Insights
Network
Clients
Logs
Hardware
Security appliances
Switches
Access points
Network-wide
ISPs
VLANs
Routing
Captive portal
Firewall
Rules
DNS security
Rate limiting
Port forwarding
Wireless
SSIDs
Design
Topology
Meter
················
Rate limiting
Add rule
Name
Guest network usage
File sharing
Backup ISP utilization
Primary ISP utilization
Prioritize VoIP
Type
guest
guest
Spectrum
AT&T
AT&T
Spectrum
Download (Kbps)
50,000
50,000
200,000
800,000
Upload (Kbps)
50,000
50,000
200,000
800,000
Internal prefix / mask
10.0.5.27 / 24
10.0.5.27 / 24
Any
Any
Any
Internal ports
Any
Any
Any
Any
Any
External prefix / mask
198.51.100.0/24
198.51.100.0/24
Any
Any
Any
External ports
Any
Any
Any
Any
Any
Add rate limit rule
Enable
Name
Description
Optional
Limit
Download
Optional
 
Kbps
Upload
Optional
 
Kbps
Bindings
VLAN
Select VLANs
Protocol
All
Internal
Optional
Local client subnet to limit traffic from.
IP address
 
Prefix length
 
Ports
1
65535
External
Optional
Remote destination subnet to limit traffic to.
IP address
 
Prefix length
 
Ports
1
65535

These additions will further optimize your network and are designed to meet your unique requirements. Look out for these changes in the next NOS firmware update coming in August.

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If you’re a customer, reach out to your account manager. If not, please contact us here.

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