Topic: Wondershaper or other QOS add-in?

[Bill]

The file sharer's on my network are maxing out the available upload bandwidth (cable modem) and I would like to reign them back in. Ping times are running almost 1 second right now and the web server has slowed to a crawl. I used to use IPcop and its built-in limiter worked great but I don't want to have to run a firewall in front of SME just to get rate limiting. (I will if I have to.)

Is there a wondershaper or other QOS addin for SME 5.6? I do not want to install the dungog dansguardian as I have no need for content filtering so a QOS only module would be nice.

As an alternative, has anyone installed the wondershaper script directly?

Is there a better alternative?

TIA,
Bill

[Bill]

Follow up to my own post. I installed the latest version of wondershaper (1.1) into /usr/bin and placed the following line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

/usr/bin/wshaper

You will have to edit the script for your own system rates and to remove the idiot check lines. Expect to do a little tweaking to get the rates just right.

My values with RoadRunner cable are:
DOWNLINK=2000
UPLINK=280
DEV=eth0

Ping times before installing = 700-1000ms
Ping times after installing = 25-75ms

Outbound BW before = 50 Kbps
Outbound BW after = 43 Kbps

[Daley]

Good done, perhaps you can share your contribs.

Thank you,
Daley

[Bill]

Update on wondershaper. It was easy enough to install the standard wondershaper script and it works however there seems to be a problem. As I let the system run the thru-put keeps dropping over a period of hours/days. I had to disable it for now and am currently running a beta 4 IPcop box as a router and using its shaper with excellent results.  Ping times are back down to 60-80ms and access to the web and mail servers are back to being snappy. I am seting the shaper to limit the bandwidth to about 85% of the maximum

I will take another look at SME to see if I can figure out whats going on but probably not for a couple of weeks. I am not sure if I can install the HTB version of the script but will try to test that version as well.