Thanks guys for this additional info.  I"d be curious to see if the manual redirect method might work.

Hi Matt - if I was to use a floating rule on the WAN interface, what would I use for the source of the traffic?

Thanks again.

Anyway, I have to almost times 2 of my actual internet bandwidth for cbq to work to saturate my bandwidth. If I put  below my internet speed, it seems to halve it every time and never saturate

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4405 traffic shaping doesn't work on bridge interfaces.

thanks guys…

I think its fixed

Asymmetric routing?

I am now going to follow the guidelines https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=145255.0

Wow thanks for the reply I'll mess around with the newer version of pfsense and see how far I can go without being a nuisance to anyone. Thanks for the links I'll definitely check it out cheers!

I've got a fq_codel running on a symmetric gigabit fiber connection using a Xeon D-1518 based setup.  Works great (maybe even a bit too much power), so i3/i5 should be fine in your case.  Also make sure you get high quality Intel based network cards/interfaces on the system.  Hope this helps.

Possibly if you had a list of FQDNs to resolve but there is no way to get a list of IP addresses into an alias using just the "domain name"  like "cloudfront.com."

Someone would have to do the actual legwork there and keep a URL table alias updated.

Here is opportunity to write your own package.

check : https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=126637.0
Im trying to do sort of the same thing. although in my case it works but like with yours the queues are not working as my mind thinks they should

This would be great am searching for something like this myself you can do it with schedulers though but its not dynamic.
my service has exact times when congestion occurs or the isp starts their throttling so its quite easy to do it this way.

Thanks, I'll give that a go.

Now I have put pfsense to factory default and configured everything new.
Unfortunately the Problem is the same. So the fault us not at the traffic shaper.
I think I have now solved the problem. I have a Rule: block port xxx (pfsense Port), block RFC1918 Networks and in my allow rule I only accept the internet poRts.
When I disabled all Firewall Rules and allow all Ports in the allow rule it is fast again.
I have this rules since years and it newer slows my bandwidth.
A few days ago I upgrade from 3.8.x to 2.4.2 RELEASE p1.
Is it possible to downgrade again?

Thank you for the reply. Yes i am expecting that kind of behavior of the traffic. I am using this as hotspot to our place because nowadays, most people are playing online mobile games, so i wanted to prioritize gaming traffic. Is it possible?

Thank you,

You might be incorrectly qualifying some of your traffic, but nobody can tell for sure since you've not posted any details whatsoever about your configuration.

I personally like HFSC. It won't scale to many users using it the way you want it, but it will work for a hand full. I think limiters can also do something of this, but I'm not familiar with them. I'm sure other people will give some other ideas.