Some newbie questions regarding Traffic Shaping
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Lo there all, first of all, thanks for this great and free product!!!
Now, here is my question:
I have a cybercafe, with 17 client machines connected to a pfsense router. I have a 1mbit connection that i want to share with all the machines.
90% of the traffic is games like CounterStrike, HalfLife, Doom, etc, so i wanna be able to have maximum priority for this, i mean i want to congifure the traffic shapping in a way that even if some users start to download files, the guys playing games don't get latency, etc….
I tried even to set the "Upper" limit for the "QOthersDown" queue (the web traffic rule points to it), and also assigned 20% of the Bandwidth to it, but no way, when someone downloads a file, he gets maximum bandwidth, and the strange thing is, if i write any thing in the "Upperlimit" field, i just get an error when trying to load the rules, so i must delete the upperlimit on this queue, not being able to limit the bandwidth of the web traffic to, let's say, 60% of my real bandwidth.I'm really new to this router honestly, so i'm sure i'm doing something wrong here....
Any help will be REALLY welcome.My Settings:
Pentium MMX 233 with 96MB of ram running from HD.
I synced to the latest version on CVS, so my system displays now "1.0-RC1
built on Mon May 8 22:37:25 UTC 2006"Thanks again guys! ;)
// Diego.
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Change m2 for the games queues to about 80% of you're bandwidth (depending on direction). Example 100KB.
You also want to enable th p2pCatchAll option during the wizard if you have not already.
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You should get a few MB more ram if possible. We recommend at least 128 MB.
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You should get a few MB more ram if possible. We recommend at least 128 MB.
Good call, that one slipped past me. Yes 128 is the minimum.
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Thanks you all for the answers, i will try this and let you know if it works. Thanks a lot again!!