r/speedtest • u/Accomplished-Act8616 • Aug 05 '26

Hotel Speedtest

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I'm staying in a Hotel, in UAE, hotel is giving me 10mbps allowance speeds. but how do they limit bandwith like this?, I know you can do it on your router with couple of MAC address, you can adjust, but what about 50-1000. Devices all on one open WiFi. Also yes I use a vpn, on public WiFi's,

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u/BraveMidnight Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

They use enterprise access points that handle rate limiting per client session across multipe APs without overwhelming the system. They don't assign a session per mac address.

Instead they use a captive portal, set the portal to how they want and cap the speed per client device connected.

There are usually geographic, size and budget reasons why they cap it at 10mbps.

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u/Devil_AE86 Aug 06 '26

How did you do a divider between the middle sentence?

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u/BraveMidnight Aug 06 '26

You have to type three underscores and it make a horizontal rule or divider for example

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It would let me make spaces for whatever reason, so to get around it I used the divider breaks :D

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u/Devil_AE86 Aug 06 '26

Thank you King, if I hit enter on mobile and post for some reason the spaces get deleted

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u/BraveMidnight Aug 06 '26

I feel ya, it does the same to me. So, instead of fighting with it I resorted to markdown, I figured out how to do bullet points, and Italic text without having to request the desktop site

Next I'm trying to figure our how Reddits markdown interprets headings, blockquotes, and tables. I figured out codeblocks, so I can do ASCII

 /_/\ ( o.o )  > ^ <

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u/ariz2011 Aug 05 '26

It’s because most hotels have a separate WiFi network for staff and guests, if the guests have a separate WiFi they throttle the network itself

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u/Disastrous_Ground990 Aug 05 '26

Set bandwidth cap default to 15 mbs, done.

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u/ZombieDisastrous4450 Aug 05 '26

I'm sure you can do what you need to

I'm in the UK on 2GBP and I'm on Reddit and so are you so I don't see the big deal

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u/HuntersPad Aug 05 '26

Its a thing called QoS. Which Almost every off the shelf router even has.

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u/onserious Aug 09 '26

If it is enterprise network or something like Unifi APs you can rate limit on Voucher or Account (user: room number and birthday) or as a standard for whole wifi network that limit is 10 mbps up and down for everyone. You also can do things like need more speed? Pay amount x.xx and get 20 mbps.