I can honestly say that this works well. I had the same problem…..a moment of stutter than voice was okay but rather annoying. I did 400Kb and 5000ms and the problem went away. Thanks for the tip.

@dusan: Realtime curve should be used only for realtime applications. Don't use it for FTP and HTTP. Use Linkshare curve instead. (Or simply set Bandwidth while the Linkshare fields are left blank.) can you describe this better. realtime seems to work well for http etc. if you want four queues 10 Mb bandwidth http  max download 10Mb priority 5 ftp    max download 8Mb priority 4 vpn    max 5 Mb high priority 6 all_other max 10 Mb priority 2 p2p  max 2 Mb priority 1 how would you laythis out then we presently use realtime for caps and this seems to work ok

I've been experimenting with this for quite some time now, and it seems as though the streaming starts messing up qwandef hits 2Mbit. If i cap it here (realtime m2 at 2Mb) it works nicely. Now this is all good and shiny, but with the streaming using 1.5Mb and the rest of the network using 2Mb (all upstream values here), im not really using my 10Mbit pipe to its fullest now am I? Any ideas as to how i can use the rest of my bandwidth without botching the streaming? //Richard.

@joustin: It doesn't help in any way. Skype configuration allows you to specify INCOMING connection port (as to configure proper port forwarding on router). It doesn't have anything to do with connecting out to the world. Shaping per IP is useless, as skype client is never the only net client on a pc workstation. Still not resolved. I'll be probably falling to some "real" voip solution, dumping skype (toy), as it is too problematic even in small business environment. I tend to disagree. The port specification seems to work for the both because I can see skype in both my VoIP up AND down queues. If you are looking for a business-class service, then skype is definitely not what you're looking for anyways. Riley

Aw durn.  :'( Well I'm either installing m0n0wall or waiting for this functionality in the next release of pfSense!

Ok! Thx for the answer. I'll be waiting for this feature.

@mrt_ok: hi guys, please let me know when do you start to solve the transparent shaper issues. I´d like to contribute if my old PHP and firewall know how can help. i had to tell my customer to timeshift the decision a bit - so there is a chance to place pfsense again - cause I think it´s a great project ! in case of a deal i´d like to donate - of cause! kind regards, mrt_ok http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2686.0.html

The answer to my own question is no. I need a transparent traffic shaper to do these things. Pfsense doesn't seem to support this at the moment. However I was able to setup m0n0wall as a transparent traffic shaper.

Really strange….

Thanks, I'll try some of the suggestions and let ya'll know what happened.

Maybe you need some other order of your rules. They are applied top down.

You can't reuse these config as pfSense doesn't use iptables. However the pfSense shaper can work in a similiar way when set up correctly. I suggest just trying to setup pfSense and running the wizard. Then just see what rules it does create and what options you have.

see http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,1686.msg9789.html#msg9789 for a list of network interfaces  that support altq

Try the default low priority flag first. If this doesn't work set some provider like "asterisk". This will setup rules based on ports. After the wizard went through edit the voip rules it created and alter the ports to what your phones/voipserver uses.

We fixed a condition with 1.0-RELEASE where under certain circumstances rules were not applied after hitting apply. You should upgrade to the release version.

@ssjoco: I have the same problem. I used the Traffic Shaping wizard. (WEB, P2P….). However the ACK, Default and the P2P queues are working, but the oters don't. I made some modification, but the result is same. I have 2 interface, WLAN, and LAN. WLAN bridged with LAN. I have the same problem. My queue for outgoing ftp packets don't work. RC3, 1WAN, 1LAN, 2 OPT

@sullrich: FAQ. Shaping does not work with bridging currently. That I knew but I thought that only implied on shaping between interfaces in the bridge. NVM thanks for clear answer and hope u will get it working cos this is really some nice piece of software. :D

Run the Shaperwizard and see what rules it creates to understand how it works. It has lots of options that might make custom rule creation unnecessary.