[pfSense] QoS for fairness usage
Hi I found this [1] nice and quick howto which explains how to set up pfSense QoS to obtain fair usage between clients, so that one will not suck all the available bandwidth. Has anyone tried it? is it working for you? I made a quick check and doesn't really seem to, I started a download on my laptop and then on the server and the latter was going nearly full speed, leaving less than 100kB/s to my client. [1] http://www.gridstorm.net/pfsense-traffic-limiting-fair-share/ -- Lorenzo Milesi - lorenzo.mil...@yetopen.it YetOpen S.r.l. - http://www.yetopen.it/ ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
Re: [pfSense] QoS for fairness usage
My experience is on par with yours - especially with low-power connections (DSL or Cable under 10mbit). On my 50Mb cable line at home - no problems in my testing. I haven’t tested the Fiber yet but should be doing so in the next month. The DSL at the bar, however, QoS throttling was so horrible I had to dump it altogether. On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:55 AM, Lorenzo Milesi max...@ufficyo.com wrote: Hi I found this [1] nice and quick howto which explains how to set up pfSense QoS to obtain fair usage between clients, so that one will not suck all the available bandwidth. Has anyone tried it? is it working for you? I made a quick check and doesn't really seem to, I started a download on my laptop and then on the server and the latter was going nearly full speed, leaving less than 100kB/s to my client. [1] http://www.gridstorm.net/pfsense-traffic-limiting-fair-share/ -- Lorenzo Milesi - lorenzo.mil...@yetopen.it YetOpen S.r.l. - http://www.yetopen.it/ ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
Re: [pfSense] QoS for fairness usage
On 2015-07-14 00:55, Lorenzo Milesi wrote: Hi I found this [1] nice and quick howto which explains how to set up pfSense QoS to obtain fair usage between clients, so that one will not suck all the available bandwidth. Has anyone tried it? is it working for you? I made a quick check and doesn't really seem to, I started a download on my laptop and then on the server and the latter was going nearly full speed, leaving less than 100kB/s to my client. [1] http://www.gridstorm.net/pfsense-traffic-limiting-fair-share/ I spent days tweaking, trying suggestions on the forums, IRC, etc. Nothing came of it, I could never get any sort of QoS working to balance traffic between users without allowing one user to starve out others, or even to prioritize some traffic at the expense of others. Traffic would seem to get into the right queue, but fire up an active torrent on a clien tweaked for far too many connections and normal browsing traffic from other machines was still quickly starved out. I eventually gave up and just started limiting known problem-users, this too proved to be unreliable as I would regularly see problem users exceeding their limits very considerably, both upstream and downstream, but it did help. Ultimately we just brought in a second pipe from the ISP and now we route high-bandwidth users to that pipe and let them fight it out amongst themselves. That has worked quite reliably. -- Dave Warren http://www.hireahit.com/ http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
