As many universities in Jakarta do not have in campus dormitories, entrepreneurs regard dormitories as business opportunity. They renovate and sometimes build semi high rise building to cater the need of students of near-by universities. The dormitories are equipped with Internet infrastructure. The students can then subscribe the dormitory infrastructure. The onset of Covid-19 pandemic forced the dorm’s owner to improve their service quality. Social distancing, work from home and other movement limitation naturally increase network traffic. Dormitory residents started to complaint concerning Internet accessibility. Traffic management become a must in order to provide better service. This research provides a model of traffic management can be economically implemented either on premise or remotely. It is also based on conventional on premise network hardware that has the facility to manage traffic of small to medium scale business. To test the model, PRTG is used as the monitoring system and MikroTik routers that have several choices shape Internet are selected. Traffic can be shaped according to user need. Implementing the model enables proactive network management.

Keywords

Dormitory, PRTG, traffic shaping, network management, service quality