From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 11:23:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA592106566B for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:23:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3478E8FC12 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so207484fga.13 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:23:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RvDCwdutCR052QB/gQl8xs7q7tyjdpFavRuC9MxC4W4=; b=jTN0acgXXBEed8HJPCeTE94O5K+SGLMF68S/mb+n/oAQFjLWQdcGst9r0RuEgqtdbv hBohpA5tjBgLSeChpxUafar2vdrrgsQVcfeJuiGULad4gj3e50+2pQc9hkoJI/fV3Pa/ b8cFAwgIKkaNPF5tCg5IcsmAvTnomZ0FkjzOQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hjq282rfjqupn7mM1fy+IpPthINW4V9O94LZV5CnX+RAD9kApyOXnBgkjC9CUjT7/k nRfbf50RJzP0jOou+GCCM372TMV3naS6MhRHFJm4VQ5rztmMOLXaDei2haFyr6jlhHzl /VucPVeG9Qrvl40Uk6xhN843V2C3CTiyOBxH4= Received: by 10.87.74.17 with SMTP id b17mr1435680fgl.59.1276860191062; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm144633fga.28.2010.06.18.04.23.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:23:08 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100618122308.2c7765cc@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4C1B4664.9070108@pp.dyndns.biz> References: <4C1B4664.9070108@pp.dyndns.biz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:23:12 -0000 On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200 Morgan Wesstr=F6m wrote: > On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: > > Yo, > >=20 > > I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. > > Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other > > connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people > > who like to download large files and play online games, it's not > > good. > Traffic shaping on your side when downloading unfortunately doesn't > help you. The data has already been transferred across your cable or > DSL connection by then and reordering any packets on your side will > not change the latency. Traffic shaping your download has to be > performed at your upstream router which you probably don't control. If the downloads are ordinary http and ftp, rather than P2P, you can use squid to throttle at the TCP level. It needs to be built with delay pools.