Basic VOIP shaping question

[johnvan]

Hello, I want to setup some very basic traffic shaping rules.  I need my voip phone to work well 100% of the time so I want to guarantee some bandwidth.  I want p2p traffic to be fast, but not at the expense of general web browsing.

First question, I didn't know what to enter for first page "network speeds" How do I determine this value or should I leave it blank?

If I gaurantee a high number for voip traffic will that bandwidth still be available when the phone is not being used? My voip computer is a dedicated computer running magicjack with a static IP address. I used the IP address for shaping and used 128kbps.

I want torrent traffic to be fast if nothing else is happening but it cannot slow down the internet or even worse, make the phone unuseable. I checked to lower the priority of p2p traffic, checked bittorrent but I use only a single port (15999) which is out of the default range so I think I will have to change that.

Any tips would be great, thanks in advance.

[dusan]

@johnvan:

Hello, I want to setup some very basic traffic shaping rules.  I need my voip phone to work well 100% of the time so I want to guarantee some bandwidth.  I want p2p traffic to be fast, but not at the expense of general web browsing.

First question, I didn't know what to enter for first page "network speeds" How do I determine this value or should I leave it blank?

Don't leave it blank. Guess it. And correctly, or the shaper doesnot work.

@johnvan:

If I gaurantee a high number for voip traffic will that bandwidth still be available when the phone is not being used? My voip computer is a dedicated computer running magicjack with a static IP address. I used the IP address for shaping and used 128kbps.

Yes, it will. Any unused bandwidth will be shared between active traffics according to the link-share bandwidth (or link-share curve, for HFSC).

@johnvan:

I want torrent traffic to be fast if nothing else is happening but it cannot slow down the internet or even worse, make the phone unuseable. I checked to lower the priority of p2p traffic, checked bittorrent but I use only a single port (15999) which is out of the default range so I think I will have to change that.

Use HFSC. Create a catch-all rule that catchs everything else into qwanp2p and qlanp2p. For VoIP create a good real-time curve. For p2p, create a good upper-limit curve.