home network monitoring and shaping

Wed Feb 13 03:17:09 UTC 2013

> 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 <james at talkunafraid.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 12/02/2013 21:56, Michael Thomas wrote:
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>> 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
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