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      furki96
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      For the convenience of users . Bandwidth is not in very good condition

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by johnpoz

        What? What is the point of giving them 40mbps for 2 minutes if your bandwidth is crap? Just give them the 10mbps out of the gate!

        I am not aware of way to do what you want.. Should prob move this thread to the traffic shaping section to be honest..

        edit: Moved to traffic shaping section - maybe the folks there might have some idea how to accomplish what your after.

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          furki96
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          Since our colleagues' business is ALL about internet we felt the urge of giving them the feeling of using the whole bandwidth for a specific time. The time which falls under a standard web page load time.
          I hope this explanation is satisfying for you.

          Thank you for your considerations.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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            heheh - yeah makes no sense at all.. Good luck with your quest.. I don't think what your after is currently possible... But the traffic shaping guru's might have some tricks up their sleeves - good luck.

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              tman222
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              We're going to need more specifics as to what you are trying to accomplish exactly and why. Are you trying to make sure that other users aren't starved of bandwidth?

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                KOM @johnpoz
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                @johnpoz It looks to me like he's trying to reproduce the burst feature that some ISPs use, where you get higher bandwidth for a short period of time before it settles down. This gives the illusion of faster internet when they're fetching small items like objects from a web page, but it throttles it down when they start downloading larger items like ISOs and torrents. I think this can be accomplished using the HFSC shaper with an m1 burst parameter. Usually m1 is measured in seconds, not minutes.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by johnpoz

                  Such a limit would be per session, ie connection not when user connects their device.

                  Such throttling could be useful when your the ISP and use has limit of their physical connection anyway.. But don't see how it works out when your at the end site... Giving all users 40Mbps when your limited to 40 max, doesn't work out so good when all your users are connecting to sites all the time... 100 users all getting full pipe doesn't work even if only for a short time..

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                    tman222
                    last edited by

                    Yeah, that's why I was asking about the OP's use case / intended goals. Seems like putting per IP limits or using weighted queues for bandwidth guarantees might be a potential option if the goal is not to starve the rest of the user pool of bandwidth.

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                      Kartoff
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                      When you have bandwidth problems I suggest you to deal with that instead of shaping your coleagues… Just find a way to get more speed and you will be happy along with them :)

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                        fsr
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                        Probably better to just configure it with the method explained in this thread: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/57476/per-ip-traffic-shaping-share-bandwith-evenly-between-ip-addresses

                        That's as fair sharing as it gets.

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