Re: [PLUG] regulating network traffic

["Jason Harlow" <jharlow1@gmail.com>]

Some screenshots of some of the QoS stuff in Tomato...

http://www.polarcloud.com/img/ssqosc108.png
http://www.polarcloud.com/img/ssqosg108.png

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Jason Harlow <jharlow1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your best value for money on QoS would probably be to buy a Linksys
> WRT-54GL <--Note the "L", it's important.
>
> This is a cheap (you can probably find one sub-$50) router that you
> can flash the firmware on.
>
> I use Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), but there are others
> (DD-WRT, etc) available
>
> It has some nice QoS features. Basically you can classify all of your
> traffic based on port ranges and even # of bytes transferred as Low,
> medium, high, highest, etc
>
> Then you can set the max bandwidth used by everything and then the
> percentage allowed per classification (i.e. high priority traffic can
> use 100%, medium can use up to 80%, etc
>
> This doesn't quite do what you're looking for, but Tomato also
> supports more complicated scripts (it's just a small linux kernel
> running on the router), and there's a good script generator:
>
> http://bulfon.com/userx/wifi/WRT54Gx/generator/
>
> That will supposedly add the type of QoS you're looking for.
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Matthew Rosewarne
> <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 22 December 2008, edmond rodriguez wrote:
>>> So how?   Qos does not seem to solve this problem since my provider pretty
>>> much compiles all the data coming in and I am hardly using the capacity of
>>> my router.  I have a 768Kb service.
>>>
>>> How can one designate some kind of rule that says "bittorrent comes last
>>> when ever anything else is getting done", but otherwise can use all the
>>> bandwidth?
>>>
>>> From what I researched, it seems like the only way to make this happen is
>>> to "throttle" the ports that bittorrent is using, or somehow throttle bit
>>> torrent itself.
>>>
>>> The bittorrent application has a throttle in it, but it is static, not
>>> dynamic.
>>
>> QOS can do exactly what you want.  However, the bottleneck is not at your
>> machine but rather where your LAN meets your ISP.  Therefore the
>> prioritisation must take place not on the individual machines, but on the
>> router.
>>
>> The only consumer-grade router that I've had with the necessary QOS abilities
>> is the one I got from Verizon for their FIOS service, but I'd expect there are
>> others on the market.
>>
>> Once you get QOS on the router, you can have it prioritise any traffic on the
>> bitorrent ports lower than other traffic, so the torrents will only use
>> bandwidth you aren't using for anything else.  Don't do throttling if you can
>> avoid it, it's a just crude way to work around (but not fix) the problem.
>>
>> %!PS: Another fun use for QOS is to make yourself a good wireless neighbor.
>> Disable WEP/WPA, isolate the wireless network from the wired network, and
>> prioritise all wireless traffic lower than wired traffic (and also your
>> wireless devices).  Now other people can use the free wifi, but they won't
>> slow you down at all, since they'll only get whatever bandwidth you aren't
>> using.
>>
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