Why does Traffic shaping on my pfsense box affect clients differently
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Hello guys,i recently configured traffic shapping on my pfsense box and set two bandwidth limits on specific ips..Some have a 5Mbps limit while about two ips have a 7Mbps limit but about two days down the line and some of the ips experience lower speeds about 1.5Mbps.It just happens at random,like today one of my clients called saying that her internet was low that she could not watch Youtube.N/B: I have a 50Mbps connection..What might be wrong
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This is my Lan rule.Thank you -
Hi @OpenWifi - Just to clarify one thing first: Are you trying to limit your clients (unique IP's) to 5Mbit / 7Mbit total, or are you trying to limit EACH client (unique IP) to 5 Mbit / 7Mbit?
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@tman222 i set up an alias of all clients who are to be limited to 5Mbps and also those that are to be limited to 7Mbps..Their Ips are static
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@tman222 i want to limit each client to a 5Mbit connection.So that each and every client has his connection of 5Mbit and 7Mbit
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Hi @OpenWifi - did you set the masks up properly when you configured the limiters? I think what might be going on here is that all IP's in your alias are limited to 5 MBit / 7 MBit in total vs. limiting EACH unique IP (host) to 5 Mbit / 7Mbit.
Please see this documentation and make sure you read all the way down past the Mask part.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/trafficshaper/limiters.html#creating-limiters
Hope this helps.
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@tman222 thanks alot