Comments 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.

By: admin

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

Mac stays the same, unless you change the motherboard.

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?

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?

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?

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!

By: joe

joe — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:54:01 +0000

I have a few computers on my network and one is an HTPC.
It seems that all the video I stream (Hulu Desktop and Netflix) experience some ripping.

When we are streaming, little other network traffic is happening beyond normal browsing and chat. I have a 10Mbps/900kbps connection. Would QoS help with this?

(When watching Hulu this morning the bandwidth maxed out at 4Mbps, if I am reading it right)

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

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%?

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?

By: Nick

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

You’re the man. Thanks so much Scott.

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.