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    Quick question about limiters

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    • M
      maverick_slo
      last edited by

      Can someone test if it behaves the same for you?
      Thanks!

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      • w0wW
        w0w
        last edited by

        Steps to reproduce?

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        • M
          maverick_slo
          last edited by

          For limiters to sto traffic just set them up and apply floating rule on wan.

          For traffic difference start torrent client and wait up to 5 minutes and observe if wan goes above defined limit.

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          • w0wW
            w0w @maverick_slo
            last edited by

            @maverick_slo
            Please provide more details for floating rule, applying on WAN, maybe screenshot is better?
            Thanks.

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            • M
              maverick_slo
              last edited by

              OK, so like this:

              Action: match
              Quick: DO NOT tick
              Direction: OUT
              Protocol: ANY
              Then in advanced:
              Gateway: select your gateway
              In / Out pipe: WAN_UP_Q / WAN_DOWN_Q (those are queues in limiters)

              And thats about it.
              If traffic stops you have the same probelm as I do if not you`re on 2.4.4 :)

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              • w0wW
                w0w @maverick_slo
                last edited by w0w

                @maverick_slo
                Yes I can confirm. Traffic stops immediately. (2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
                built on Mon Jul 29 17:15:22 EDT 2019 )
                For the second one, I can tell that I have problems with limiters since 2.4.4 released, it's working but not as expected by me. I did not reported it, because I think my ISP changed something in the same time, I do not have bufferbloat anymore without limiters and I got it when enabled it once again.
                Anyway I can test speed difference later this week.

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                • M
                  maverick_slo
                  last edited by

                  Ok cool, thanks. I did report it and when I use them on lan, direction in they work ok, but there is traffic difference. Maybe its expected but it only happens with torrents so far.

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                  • w0wW
                    w0w
                    last edited by

                    Ok, I used floating rule for LAN, direction in. What I see immediatelly is that internet slows down and I have C rating on dslreports.com for bufferbloat.
                    Tested with 5 porn torrents, after 20 minutes it's went over 150mbit. The limiter is set to 100.

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                    • M
                      maverick_slo
                      last edited by

                      Yeah thats bad :(
                      But at least porn torrents will be DL-ed faster :)

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                      • M
                        maverick_slo
                        last edited by

                        This is really annoying.

                        Why WAN differs so much comparing to LAN?
                        This is after 2 minutes of torrenting. Limited to 75 Mbit/s.

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                        And this one after 6 minutes.
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                        LAN stays at 75Mbit/s and WAN goes up to 85 Mbit/s.

                        Why?

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                        • w0wW
                          w0w
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                          I have physical interface ix0 where I have ISP LAN ("ISP_LAN") DHCP 172.x.x.x assigned and also PPPoE ( "WAN" external IP) over it. When I look at Status / Interfaces or Statistics on dashboard all looks recent, PPPoE (named WAN) have huge amount of traffic and ISP_LAN have none or a couple of kbytes. When I look at Status / Traffic Graph then both WAN and ISP_LAN are virtually same, but WAN shows IP addresses and ISP_LAN not.
                          I don't know is it "by design" or there is something broken.

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