Hi All

We run a small WISP with around 300 clients

I've had a look around the forum trying to figure the best way to run a QoS script such as Butch Evans'.
I'm aware that this places a heavy load on the processor, and I'm trying to figure out if a faster single (or dual) processor such as an x86 board or an RB1100 router is the way to go, or whether to use the CCR Tilera cpu with multiple cores?

Would I be right in thinking that QoS using Mangle rules etc. can only utilise one core at a time of the CPU?

The RB1100 is soon to be End-of Life, but there seem to be conflicting opinions on the CCR series, although every firmware upgrade seems to assuage some of these fears. We use a CCR1016 as the mainrouter to our backbonen in our office, and mainlu RB2011's at Access points. Each AP may have up to 20 or 30 clients or so.

The plan is to put a Routerboard (or x86) at major nodes or AP clusters to overcome some of the limitations of our backhaul to the AP's which often only passes 20 Mbps of TCP traffic, and with the ever increasing poularity of video streaming battling P2P, viruses etc, we need to do something!

Any suggestions or pointers appreciated

Andy