> I'd be interested in what other people are using for home connection > debugging.
I put the teenager behind a 10Mb hub & haven't had any problems since :) Regards, Lee On 2/12/13, James Harrison <ja...@talkunafraid.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 12/02/2013 21:56, Michael Thomas wrote: >> >> It seems that there really ought to be a better way here to manage >> my home network. Like, for example, the ability to get stats from >> router and tell it to shape various devices/flows to play nice. >> Right now, it seems to me that the state of the art is pretty bad >> -- static-y kinds of setups for static-y kinds of flows that >> people-y kind of users don't understand or touch on their home >> routers. >> > > I've been using per-connection queues on a Mikrotik 450G; this permits > shaping based on the destination/source IP, so no one device can nom > all of the bandwidth on the link unless it's uncontested; should more > than one device want all the bandwidth they both get half, and so on > (in a typical config). It's not flawless but it's a massive > improvement on no shaping whatsoever. > > The gotcha is that you need to configure your link speed in the router > for it to be aware of the capacity it has to play with, but that's not > something you have to touch very often most of the time (though if > your connection speed/upstream capacity varies, there's not a lot > that'll help you at that point. But it does most of the time stop the > "X is watching HD YouTube videos and now I can't check my email" sort > of problems. It's a nice set-and-forget solution. > > ntop or similar on a Linux boxen in concert with flows from said > Mikrotik tends to help more than anything for analysis of usage etc, > but it's still an inelelegant solution to the problem of analyzing > links in this scenario. I'd be interested in what other people are > using for home connection debugging. > > Cheers, > James > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlEa2esACgkQ22kkGnnJQAyFnwCfcaq95/Nd1iNk4Fj/j6jSB98A > fEsAn3CIgoizBZjPbTTwlQPS+iKccx2Q > =FUhz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
