User hogging internet. How to stop it?
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What is the proper way in PFSense to get a user to quit hogging 100% of the internet connection? I've tried using a traffic shaper, but it seems to have 0 effect on helping the rest of the users on the network.
I used the wizard for multi/lan/wan, using the CBQ interface & scheduler.
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Well you were doing it wrong then ;)
Simple solution would be to just rate limit his IP to something really slow…
Or do believe you could just do it in the captive portal if using that..
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Well, you could throttle the user. ;)
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I want it to automate this. Whenever any user tries to upload something, instead of giving them our full pipe, give them say half. Rate limiting by a single IP doesn't sound right?
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So what if 2 users want to upload they get /2 x2 = full ;)
I would suggest you ask in the traffic shaping section for what your trying to do exactly. Sure the experts there will help out.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=26.0
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Try enabling FairQ shaper on your WAN and check the "codel" box in the default queue. See if that help. Of course make sure your WAN bandwidth is 80%-90% of your REAL bandwidth.
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So what if 2 users want to upload they get /2 x2 = full ;)
I would suggest you ask in the traffic shaping section for what your trying to do exactly. Sure the experts there will help out.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=26.0
Think of it in terms of %. Not 2+2=4. Divide the bandwidth up equally so that there is enough overhead to not choke out the connection causing packet loss and such.
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That is not what you stated ;) I was making a funny about it…
You really need to look into how shaping works and limiting though... TCP does this on its own..
My guess would be this user is doing p2p and has hundreds of sessions running if he is eating up all the bandwidth.
The best solution to such users is just block what they are doing or just limit them down to shit..
