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Friday, February 12, 2010

Re: shaping: dividing bandwidth between router & NAT hosts

Tim Clewlow wrote at 2010-02-12 02:52 -0600:
> > but these days I only do egress shaping
>
> I agree completely. I have a home network with multiple
> people/computers who all run bit-torrent (with little or no limits
> set) - and then complain when web pages take forever to load. So I
> built a firewall that prioritises upstream traffic only. ssh and dns
> queries get first priority, http / https traffic next, and
> everything else has lowest priority. Works great, no more complaints
> and they all have bit-torrent running at max speed (as far as _they_
> know).

Thanks for the hints.

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