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Comment on Setting Outbound Tomato Class Rate by admin

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:34:23 +0000

Depends if you are using a physical phone, or the software on a PC. There’s really only one good way with a phone, assign the MAC address of the phone the highest priority. For the SW on a PC, you need to consider using L7. For both, it must be highest. I still have the configuration in the example, no problems going on a year. No echo’s, nothing.

Comment on Setting Outbound Tomato Class Rate by Robert

Robert — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:38:56 +0000

Thanks for the Tomato Skype QOS info.. but I wonder… how did you setup the Skype Classification??

Thanks!

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by rhine

rhine — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:45:33 +0000

I am trying to check out how useful the Qos is in the Tomato implementation. I like to test these scenarios to ensure the Qos really works just as it should and not just some fancy GUI with overheads.
Can one of you GURUs help me chalk out few test cases where I can really see the Qos in action? example how do I see KAZA, BITTORRENT, FILE UPLOADS etc to pick up steam in throughput with Qos enabled? Any/every help is much appreciated!!
regards
roy

Comment on RoBoForm vs. Foxmarks by GazGuzla

GazGuzla — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:18:28 +0000

Agreed. The last version of Xmarks and the last version of RoboForm (badgering you to buy, setting limitations on free that render RoboForm next to useless) has changed my opinion. Not going to remove this post, perhaps the comments will be useful. Will have a look at Lastpass, thanks for the tip.

Comment on RoBoForm vs. Foxmarks by Brett Schulte

Brett Schulte — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:23:16 +0000

As a former fan of Roboform, and a user of Foxmarks / Xmarks, I am currently using LastPass. Roboform is stubbornly anti-Mac, and Foxmarks changed their core concept when they changed to Xmarks. Lastpass is great, and they’re the last player standing.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:24:41 +0000

Hi,

I have a question on class percentage of bandwidth. I can see why I’d set a particularly hungry/less important protocol to a percentage lower than 100% ?(for example, to limit the “lowest” class I’d set it from 1%-50% to allow it only haf my outbound bandwidth.

I understand the max %, but why is there a minimum? Why would it ever be more than 1%?

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Nate

Nate — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:13:23 +0000

I have some suggestions and a question. I run a dedicated P2P seed box on my home network, so I use a MAC address rule to set everything coming from that box to the lowest setting. I also put this rule at the top of the list to minimize the number of rule compares for the process/machine that creates the most connections. It does minimize CPU usage especially when you initially start up your P2P client and you get a “connection storm”. Every other rule uses IP or Port# in my setup. Remember that IPP2P Layer 7 will use the most CPU, while MAC/IP addres rules use the least followed by port number rules. If you can get away with it, try and avoid L7 rules, and turn the whole option off to conserve CPU.

One question I have though is when I run my torrent client on my seed box, I see DNS activity being classified in the “highest” category despite there being no connections in the list. If a torrent acquires enough seeds and really starts downloading heavily, the DNS “ghost traffic” upload increases proportionally and starts bottle necking the torrents. I was guessing this maybe had something to do with ACK packets being prioritized, so I turned off that option but to no avail. I do have Vegas congestion enables as well, but also turned that off/on with no effect. Any ideas?

Comment on RoBoForm vs. Foxmarks by GazGuzla

GazGuzla — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:21:10 +0000

ecards - Not recommending one or the other. I was talking about the cool things it does, from my point of view. Would be nice to have some of my more important passwords that are really complicated and hard to remember (with the associated Bookmark) encrypted, and available to me on a flash when I travel. That I don’t like syncing passwords (like my bank account) to some unknown server on the net, and trust a stranger for its safety. And the many other cool things it does, like connect to a Feed Reader that has a built in browser, but you can’t save Bookmarks or Passwords on it. Or the auto login feature, where you click on a saved Bookmark, it enters the User and Password for you, logging you directly in, solving a long known security vulnerability (Keystroke logging AKA keylogging, a method of capturing and recording user keystrokes).

Don’t take this personal, but the fact it doesn’t fit what your trying to do, doesn’t make it a big weakness. Wish Foxmarks worked on IE and the other browsers. It doesn’t (at the time of this reply, plans are that it will). RoBoForm does, connects to any browser. That’s important to me, being a beta tester on multiple browsers. Do I think Foxmarks has a “big weakness” because it can’t support IE? Considering IE is 75% of the browsers out there, maybe. But I don’t think I would call it that, cause it was built for Firefox users in the first place.

Maybe I just should have said - For your requirements, (and you use Firefox) use Foxmarks. I use it for the majority of Bookmarks, generic to multiple systems.

Comment on RoBoForm vs. Foxmarks by ecards

ecards — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:02:58 +0000

I think you’re missing a big weakness of Roboform.

For people who have multiple computers, say one if the office and a laptop in another room, it’s ridiculous to keep moving a flash drive around your house just to keep things sync’d.

For guest computers I see your point, but for multiple computers owned only by you Roboform is a real pain to sync.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Nick

Nick — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:56:32 +0000

You’re the man. Thanks so much Scott.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Scott

Scott — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:54:13 +0000

No problem, use the example, which is an actual picture of my router - 2000 Up (2mb). I’m in Massachusetts, what I get as an average. Use the test links I gave in the post, be sure QoS is disabled to try the tests for yourself. Likely, you will find results between 1800 - 2200 - depending on the location its faster or slower. take the average of the tests. Do them at night, in the morning, and the middle of the day.

Comment on Optimize Tomato QoS by Nick

Nick — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:38:23 +0000

Thanks for all the great info Scott. I will use the knowledge I’ve gained from your site and this post to tinker with qos. I don’t mean to sound stupid and I apologize if I missed something…The only part I didn’t understand was what number do you recommend I put in for the upload value? Also, how does one determine an efficient upload value. I understood your explanation for everything else. Again, thanks so much for all the useful information. Regards, Nick