No matter the operating system (Windows, Suse, Debian, K/Ubuntu) if you share a connection, you are at the mercy of the other people you share with. Online gaming suffers more than ANYTHING, but just surfing can suck, even on broadband. If I am playing something online (Such as Runescape) and the wife or the kid starts downloading something, I DIE!!
I´ve tried a number of ¨solutions¨ for this problem. Anything on Windows is shareware, you have to pay for it, and it isn´t very effective. I´ve found some Linux solutions, which I had a hard time configuring. Some worked better than others, but none were real great.
Finally stumbled across WonderShaper! It´s BEAUTIFUL!! I can play Runescape, while I have a download running, the kid can start a bit torrent in the kitchen, and the wife can download some silly Windows game in the bedroom, AND I DON´T LAG AT ALL!!
If you share an internet connection, you really need to install Wondershaper on the gateway machine.
Hardy Heron found it on the universe repository (I have all repositories enabled) and installed it without a hitch.
You WILL sacrifice a small percentage of your bandwidth. To set it up properly, you must know your actual upload/download speeds, then set the shaper just UNDER those speeds.
My own bandwidth speed varies between 290 and 305 down, and between 160 and 190 up. To invoke the shaper from the console, ¨~# wondershaper eth0 285 150¨
Documentation is available in the man page, as well as on the internet.
c/p from the man page:
WONDERSHAPER(8) WONDERSHAPER(8)
NAME
wondershaper - simple traffic shaping script
SYNOPSIS
wondershaper [interface]
wondershaper clear [interface]
wondershaper [interface] [downlink] [uplink]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the wondershaper script. This man‐
ual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
script does not have a manual page.
wondershaper is a traffic shaping script that provides low latency,
prioritizes bulk transfers below normal web traffic, prioritizes inter‐
active shells above normal web traffic, and attempts to prevent upload
and download traffic from affecting each other’s ack packets. Put sim‐
ply, the wondershaper makes your internet connection more "responsive"
SYNTAX
A summary of wondershaper syntax is included below. For a complete
description, see the files in /usr/share/doc/wondershaper.
wondershaper [ interface ]
Shows the status of traffic shaping on that interface.
wondershaper clear [ interface ]
Removes all traffic shaping from that interface.
wondershaper [ interface ] [ downlink ] [ uplink ]
Configures the wondershaper on the specified interface, given
the specified downlink speed in kilobits per second, and the
specified uplink speed in kilobits per second.
I´ve tried a number of ¨solutions¨ for this problem. Anything on Windows is shareware, you have to pay for it, and it isn´t very effective. I´ve found some Linux solutions, which I had a hard time configuring. Some worked better than others, but none were real great.
Finally stumbled across WonderShaper! It´s BEAUTIFUL!! I can play Runescape, while I have a download running, the kid can start a bit torrent in the kitchen, and the wife can download some silly Windows game in the bedroom, AND I DON´T LAG AT ALL!!
If you share an internet connection, you really need to install Wondershaper on the gateway machine.
Hardy Heron found it on the universe repository (I have all repositories enabled) and installed it without a hitch.
You WILL sacrifice a small percentage of your bandwidth. To set it up properly, you must know your actual upload/download speeds, then set the shaper just UNDER those speeds.
My own bandwidth speed varies between 290 and 305 down, and between 160 and 190 up. To invoke the shaper from the console, ¨~# wondershaper eth0 285 150¨
Documentation is available in the man page, as well as on the internet.
c/p from the man page:
WONDERSHAPER(8) WONDERSHAPER(8)
NAME
wondershaper - simple traffic shaping script
SYNOPSIS
wondershaper [interface]
wondershaper clear [interface]
wondershaper [interface] [downlink] [uplink]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the wondershaper script. This man‐
ual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
script does not have a manual page.
wondershaper is a traffic shaping script that provides low latency,
prioritizes bulk transfers below normal web traffic, prioritizes inter‐
active shells above normal web traffic, and attempts to prevent upload
and download traffic from affecting each other’s ack packets. Put sim‐
ply, the wondershaper makes your internet connection more "responsive"
SYNTAX
A summary of wondershaper syntax is included below. For a complete
description, see the files in /usr/share/doc/wondershaper.
wondershaper [ interface ]
Shows the status of traffic shaping on that interface.
wondershaper clear [ interface ]
Removes all traffic shaping from that interface.
wondershaper [ interface ] [ downlink ] [ uplink ]
Configures the wondershaper on the specified interface, given
the specified downlink speed in kilobits per second, and the
specified uplink speed in kilobits per second.