Is there a way to circumvent a capped connection?

Routers
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I was at a hotel where the internet speed was capped artificially. Each client only got about 5 Mbps.

Is there anway to circumvent this?
e.g. attach multiple glinet routers to the wifi everyone gets a share but data traffic is split before them?

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Hi,

This is the speed limit for the primary gateway/router, which cannot be broken or bypassed.

That is also equivalent to multiple clients connecting to the primary WiFi, each client obtains 5Mbps, but still cannot get the sum of their combined rates.

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This is off topic but I would like to know the hotel so that I know to never stay there. Yeesh!

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spa hotel szent gotthart, Hungary.

Is there a way to do some traffic mangling so one master device (as a router) controls multiple slave devices (that are the only ones connected to wifi) and the packages are distributed equally resulting in a multiplication of bandwith (or in this case a multiplication of limits)?

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Thanks. That kind of distressing given Hungary generally has really good, like 1+ Gbps, Internet availability, doesn't it?

You'd have to find out if the 'net connection is metered on per-room or per-device basis. If per-room you're pretty much out of luck unless you want to pay for more rooms. If per-device I could hypothesize using a multi-WAN/repeater configuration on a master device running as round-robin to spread the packets across multiple slave devices/SSID assocations but that's getting into, at the very least, a touch of custom scripting work. Labor is always the most expensive part of development.

So technically speaking, yes, I could see it possibly working... but you're going to have to learn, at a minimum, ssh, uci, POSIX-scripting, a bit of network administration/engineering & have devices or one high-performance travel router that runs pure/'vanilla' OpenWrt. I speculate the Slate AX would be an interesting candidate for multiple AP/SSID connections routed into it.

Then you'd need a development 'lab' to test your builds against a 'mock up' of the Wi-Fi network found in spa hotel szent.

Here's how to get started without buying more equipment right away: