[lug] QoS and dd-wrt

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Tue Sep 1 19:01:49 MDT 2009


Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On 08/31/2009 07:30 PM, Ben wrote:
>> However, if one computer starts a download, it gets 98% of the
> 
> The thing you need to understand is that the router on your end is on the
> wrong side of the link to do QoS for incoming traffic.  It's your ISP side
> that really needs to implement the QoS or shaping.

The bandwidth arbitrator says it's designed to run on your end.  Maybe 
that's just advertising.  The creator gave a talk at CLUE in '03 and 
said something about limiting ACKs upstream to do its shaping but I 
don't remember enough to know whether that really makes it different.

Dave




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