[olug] Help w/ my server

[Sam Tetherow]

He has a Mikrotik router so traffic shaping should be pretty straight 
forward.  Just figure out what your maximum upload speed is and set your 
upload bandwidth limit to about 5k less.

On 07/23/2012 09:31 PM, Christopher Cashell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:22 PM, DYNATRON tech<dynatron at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> in my situation, upstream is limited, so be creative with bandwidth use,
>> and dont saturate upstream or youll kill the downstream as well.
> I had challenges with this when I had the business cable modem and its
> the annoying upload rate.  The solution, though not necessarily for
> the faint of heart (unless you have previous experience), is QoS (the
> 'tc' command from the iproute2 tools).  With QoS, you can prioritize
> certain traffic (specifically, interactive traffic (ssh/rdp/etc),
> VoIP, and upstream ACKs.  That will help maximize your download
> performance without negatively impacting latency sensitive
> applications.
>
> QoS has a well deserved reputation for complexity, but luckily there
> are a few things that can make it easier.  First are the scripts/tools
> that have been put together to help build a simple set of QoS policy
> rules.  Luckily, for most home users, there isn't that much that's
> required, so these simple tools can handle the heavy lifting.  If you
> need something more complicated, it's probably easiest to start with
> the output of one of these, and modify it from there.  Probably the
> best known of these is called wondershaper, although shapecfg and
> CBQ.init are also viable options.
>
> The other alternative, if you only have occasional large downloads
> that cause problems, or you don't want to deal with Linux's QoS, you
> can also use a userspace program like trickle.  Trickle is a simple
> tool that makes it trivial to limit the transfer rate of a single
> application (for example, ftp or wget).
>