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Comment on Access Your Home Computer from the Internet by Magnus

Magnus — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:19:04 +0000

I use windows remote desktop which I find does the job nicely once you’ve set it up properly, which isn’t really that hard.

To bypass having to disable sleep or hibernate mode, I use a wake on lan program to send magic packets to that computer, which wakes it up from sleep. Some network cards even have the ability to be powered on in this way.

Comes in real handy if you have computers that arent where you are.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Rykel

Rykel — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:10:35 +0000

I also need to know how to configure Tomato for Skype, as right now, whenever someone is using the internet to watch streaming online TV such as xunlei.com, my Skype call quality would suffer terribly. Please help. Thank you!

Comment on Tomato Firmware FAQ by Rykel

Rykel — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:05:51 +0000

Hi, I am using Tomato on a Linksys WRT54GL with Skype on Linux. Unfortunately, whenever someone is watching streaming online videos such as Xunlei.com, my Skype quality suffers. I do NOT know how to instruct the router to give priority bandwidth to Skype… please help me? Thank you.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by abe

abe — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:50:04 +0000

It seems nobody has explained how to reliably qos skype traffic. (not just qos a mac address or ip or port that could have skype traffic on it.
Does anybody know how to detect skype traffic?, is there a way to reliably know from packet inspection? or does the encryption make this impossible??

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Philip

Philip — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:28:21 +0000

@Peter: The mac address is the identification of your physical network adapter. Yes, the network adapter COULD be integrated on your motherboard or it could be on a plug-in card – or even both – whatever physical network adapter that’s used by your computer.

Comment on RoBoForm vs. Foxmarks by Monaye

Monaye — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:10:10 +0000

LastPass looks promising. Used to have RoboForm but recently bought MAC and I was so upset when found out RoboFrom doesn’t support MAC. But now I like more with LastPass, $1/month for premium seems great $ to support them.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by admin

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:12:16 +0000

Mac stays the same, unless you change the motherboard.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by peter@netzwerk

peter@netzwerk — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:07:35 +0000

Does my mac adresse change if I upgrade my computer with some other hardware? For example change the graphic card?

Comment on Access Your Home Computer from the Internet by Armitage

Armitage — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:08:57 +0000

I actually use Microsoft Live Mesh Beta. Which also has a dropbox type file snyc’er and gives 50Gb free storage space in the cloud. It has a couple bugs since its still a beta, but otherwise, I find it incredibly useful.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Armitage

Armitage — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:03:05 +0000

@scottb
Regarding your suggestion about using the Skype port used in the skype settings. That port seems to be only for incoming calls and it does not seem to cover the actual video and audio traffic. It is also a randomly generated port # that should be different for each skype client. Wouldn’t using the L7 settings; skypeout and skypetoskype be a much better solution for a network that has several PCs running Skype?

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Armitage

Armitage — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:56:05 +0000

Why is your unclassified traffic still at ~60% ? Shouldn’t that traffic be caught by the Bulk Traffic classification? I’m seeing this on my router as well and at further inspection, it looks like it nearly all of it should be caught by the WWW or bulk traffic classifications. Can you explain that?

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Chinmay

Chinmay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:19:43 +0000

I’ve a problem: I am in Thaland, and I’ve a DSL line. It comes with it’s own DSL/Modem+Router. It’s a Zyxel router and I can not install Tomato on it. So, I am thinking of getting another Tomato compatible router and using that as my DHCP and QoS server. So, I’d plug Zyxel to Tomato and then all other clients would connect through Tomato. But here is the problem:
-. There are about 40 wireless clients connected (through wireless APs)
-. These people come and go everyday (so APs are basically hotspots) and I’ve no way of predicting mac-addresses or ip-addresses.
What I’d like to do is following:
1. Prioritize Skype, VoIP, VPN traffic
2. Second priority to regular web-surfing and you-tube
3. Least (actually, I’d like to simply limit) priority to file sharing (ftp, kazzaa, bittorrent, http based downloads from site like rapidshare.com, megaupload.com and so on).
4. Basically, I don’t want one or two wireless clients clogging the whole network by using BitTorrent, or downloading from http sites like rapdshare.com, megaupload.com etc.

Any help would be appreciated!