Darrick, I completely understand. But over half of my download bandwidth evaporated by following the directions. I'd say I'm experiencing abnormal results, so I'm wondering if anybody has some advice on using this feature.
On 12/20/06, Darrick Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary G. Hendershot wrote: > > I will echo the thoughts of Tom Lynn ... > > > <snip> > > I am using voice prioritization on 2 including the one I keep in my home ... > > It seems that when I use the voice prioritization scheme, even when there is > > no voice traffic, the general internet access looses some of its steam ... > > But I have not run any definitive tests on it so at this point, its just gut > > feel, no proof ... > > > > What the voice priority scheme will do, is keep my wife's streaming > > audio/video adiction from messing with my voice traffic ... So even if it > > does have a modest hit, it seems to be worth it to me ... As always, your > > mileage may vary ... > > > I am not a traffic shaping expert, but I will do my best to explain why > it is impossible to do traffic shaping without taking some hit on total > throughput. In a nutshell, you MUST reduce the overall total potential > bandwidth purposely so that YOU become the bottleneck, not your internet > connection. So for example, if you have a 3 MB downlink and a 512k > uplink, you have no choice but to reduce those purposely to say 90% of > those values to do proper traffic shaping. If you are unwilling to do > that, you are willing to have your internet provider do the shaping > because once you reach the limit provided by your internet provider, > that's exactly what will happen. (to use Gary's example, his wife will > saturate the link with the video stream and some packets will be > dropped, making the voice link very poor). > > > Hopefully that explains it better, but you will see a drop in total > throughput with traffic shaping enabled. > > Darrick > > -- > Darrick Hartman > DJH Solutions, LLC > http://www.djhsolutions.com > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.kriscompanies.com > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.kriscompanies.com http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
