Use a real VoIP or video program and not Skype. :-) Skype is absolutely terrible, it's just a P2P system that moves live content.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 9/14/2011 2:28 PM, Greg Ihnen wrote: > Guys, > > I've gotten so much out of these forums. I appreciate you letting me be > a part of them. I had an idea which I don't know if it would be of interest > to anyone here but I hope it is. It has to do with bandwidth management and > P2P and Skype and their interaction in MT's RouterOS. > > I've noticed some P2P traffic gets picked up by the L7 regex for Skype. > Since anyone doing bandwidth management for both Skype and P2P is probably > trying to prioritize Skype and de-prioritize P2P and MT's confusing the two > is going to have negative consequences. Having the P2P traffic get into > Skype's queue does the exact opposite of what I'm trying to do. > > You'll see when MT's L7 Skype regex is misidentifying P2P traffic as > Skype traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic will be greatly unbalanced, > much more so than even if one side was doing voice and video and the other > side was just doing voice. I was seeing hundreds of Kbps down and one or two > Kbps up on the Skype queues. I knew that wasn't right. I looked and sure > enough there was bit torrent activity going on. I wonder if some of these bit > torrent clients don't try to make their traffic appear to be traffic of legit > apps. > > I'm using a modified version of Butch's script. What I'm doing with > regard to Skype and P2P to correct this problem is the part of the script > that detects P2P traffic keeps a list of the local users's IPs. I have the > part of the script that prioritizes Skype ignore the user's traffic if > they're one of the P2P'ers. That means not only does their P2P work poorly > but their Skyping is not going to be as good as it would if they weren't > messing around with P2P. I'm very heavily trying to discourage P2P here. > > Greg > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
