Bandwidth limits

[Ringo Kamens]

How about using ToS filtering so all your traffic (like voip) gets
higher priority that tor?

On 1/12/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 04:58:05PM +0100, Enigma wrote:
>
> > So I switched to English and it tells me to put in my upload speed. So
> > I tried out 40 kb/s maximum and 20 kb/s minimum and get the following
>
> I've waited a bit before the new server stabilized traffic
> before I tried placing a VoIP call on the same DSL line.
> Unthrottled, the result was unusable. Even with 40 KB limits
> it took a while (some 20-30 sec into the call) it took a while
> before stuttering subsided, and only occasional faint artifacts
> were heard.
>
> I'm trying
>
> BandwidthRate 30 KB
> BandwidthBurst 30 KB
>
> now, but I welcome other solutions. I could use pfSenses TrafficShaper
> to throttle select ports, but it would still no good if the DSL FIFO
> was full. I think I'm going to titrate the value for a while, until
> I've got something I can live with.
>
> > If I put in 3 digit numbers (for example 300 kb/s and 200 kb/s) I
> > don't get the error message. However, my bandwidth is completey taken
> > by Tor and denies any other internet activities unless I had all the
> > time of the world available. ;)
>
> http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#LimitBandwidth
>
> suggests disabling DirPort if all else fails:
>
> "If you have an asymmetric connection (upload less than download) such as a
> cable modem, you should set BandwidthRate to less than your smaller
> bandwidth (Usually that's the upload bandwidth). (Otherwise, you could drop
> many packets during periods of maximum bandwidth usage -- you may need to
> experiment with which values make your connection comfortable.) Then set
> BandwidthBurst to the same as BandwidthRate. Since the BandwidthRate and
> BandwidthBurst options only look at incoming bytes currently, you may find
> that if you're still seeing too much outgoing traffic, you should turn off
> your DirPort; most users don't need to do this though."
>
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