[olug] Help w/ my server

[Sam Flint]

ok then, looks like business internet will be what i get.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
> 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).
>>
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