From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 00:51:24 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 5FAE71065670 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:51:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385BB8FC17 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg2 with SMTP id 2so502630pvg.13 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:51:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=P1OJMODktELbs3WBkdCbBUPDXvBnc3dRmZp8QuJG8VE=; b=kvPk0kd672bkGGqqrOUZ+u65fgvq2DnnKDdDlPMNDDKpw8/btfKznJKLC0XmBC95vu 74HDocTmntpRaHa6gTzzLCsZz80rqVUFGbmJlWnS4YtcpuAfn3c2sV3ixyXDiLZlzzPJ LLMFJ0MP/iQLG1PwvkMEgYhvhr4SG5AgAmxqo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=o3ahstIcHsH+DuEARWD+kSRVUark2cjdpmwM0lqgsnSZkkfhrhiRoQFek8a+V+L33d GZ7ry10j3+DiuvYzVYvw+biq96+syagz1Jt2CV2p53al0mJSwBebiQjWEjZDvgx/Jjid eIWH3vXetqbqM83nnqFeRD1avYTTmjLiz+gjY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.55.11 with SMTP id d11mr5778878wfa.99.1276649483520; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.51.21 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:51:22 -0600 Message-ID: From: Modulok To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: 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: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:51:24 -0000 Yo, 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. I tried traffic shaping with PF, which works - almost: I tried the home example in the PF book, but it doesn't work out so well. I can throttle users with no trouble, but even so that doesn't seem to help the latency issue unless I choke the 'big file download' users almost completely off. It's like nothing helps. I tried a priority based queue where all traffic on the gaming ports was placed in front of all other traffic, and while I saw a very mild improvement, latency was still really pitiful. Is there anything else I can do? Anyone have a similar setup and wish to share config files? Are there some sysctl's that would help this out or something. I'm almost ready to just buy a 'gaming' *gag* router which implements their own brand of QoS, but don't want to sink to that level if I don't have to. Help! -Modulok-