[lug] QoS and dd-wrt

[Zan Lynx]

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.

This is true. Best of luck getting your ISP to do that for you.

However, you *can* get a little help by using an ingress police filter 
(TC terminology).

The effect of this does suck a bit. What it does is it drops a random 
over-limit incoming packet that you've already received. That is a waste 
of your network bandwidth. But it has the effect of forcing TCP to slow 
down below the packet drop rate. It won't do anything for UDP.

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