ISP oversold my bandwidth I need to shape VOIP

georgeberz

I run on a small network at my home, I have DSL 40/3M however. That is stated speed and NEVER really works out.

We live on a small island only available by a ferry. The DSL company is our only provider available. and they will not spend any money on the island to improve speeds. many on the island cannot get any service, some only get 5-10mb download. I'm blessed to have what I have.

My upload speed is usually 200-300k, with 2 teenagers and a wife at home all wanting to do different things. I need to prioritize SIP traffic.

I set up FreePBX and it works, its just jittery at times.

EVERYWHERE I try on pfsense to manage QOS
it seems to always be asking me what my upload and download speeds are. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THAT. it varies too much to be of any real use.

I need port 5060 and udp 10000-20000 to have 1st priority period in the packet line up or to give FreePBX computer its own priority based on its IP

So can pfsense prioritize traffic based on ports or ip without asking about bandwidth shaping, I just want all other traffic to go as sub traffic or penalty traffic. but again not based on the speed of my internet.

Thank you, George

SteveITS

@georgeberz A couple of options...

try https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/codel-limiters.html
A lot of people like it, I found on higher speed connections on slower CPUs a 2100) it lowers bandwidth.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/trafficshaper/altq-scheduler-types.html#priority-queuing-priq
PRIQ doesn't care about bandwidth it just sends packets in order. I think the wizard still asks (?) but then doesn't use the numbers. It's easy to set up and generally what we use.

Mission-Ghost

I'm sorry to hear of your frustrations. I had similar experiences with CenturyLink DSL...slow as cold tar but very very stable until it went down for a week two separate times. Then I was done.

So I switched to Starlink. It's been very good to excellent, if it's available where one lives. It's available on cruise ships...it might be available on your island. I'll never go back to DSL unless I have no other choice. It's obsolete and inadequate on the best of days.

100-300/10-30 mbps here. I use Ooma VoIP with traffic shaping on a Netgate 4200 but it worked fine before I upgraded from an 1100. Shaping configuration is unchanged between them.

I also use Zoom without any difficulty at all. Average latency is typically sub-25 ms. I've got IPv4 and IPv6 working too. Latency went down a few ms when I got the 4200 but otherwise even the 1100 worked well enough.

Use case: home internet two users, much streaming for both people, much online gaming, though no game hosting. Numerous cameras, phones, tablets, VPN to office, two Roku boxes etc.

georgeberz

@Mission-Ghost I live on an Island covered w trees I am surrounded by 80-100' trees no clear line of site. thank you though I have tried. :)

Mission-Ghost

@georgeberz said in ISP oversold my bandwidth I need to shape VOIP:

@Mission-Ghost I live on an Island covered w trees I am surrounded by 80-100' trees no clear line of site. thank you though I have tried. :)

Frustrating. Maybe put up a tower? Given the difference in our lives between DSL and Starlink, I think it'd be TOTALLY worth it to put up a tower.

For added detail, I use PRIQ shaping. Works well.