sniper007
26-01-2009, 14:18
Hi guys,
Haven't posted here in a while. I have been popping in from time to time and have seen a lot of posts of late and information regarding traffic shaping and torrent throttling etc. Can someone help me understand traffic shaping?
1: First of all, are torrents throttled IN ADDITION TO standard traffic shaping techniques?
2: I have recently experienced shaping a few times on my connection, and this is not a post to moan about it (plenty of those already) but rather understand it and when I will get shaped. Is anyone able to tell from the graph below why I was shaped between 18:30 to 11:30 ? Which limit did I breach? Daytime download limit, evening peak upload limit or evening peak download limit?
Graph notes: 12-14:30 - downloading, then stopped for a bit manually, then restarted them at 16:00. Dark green shows average sustained. Light green is peak. This is on a 4mb cable connection.
3: Is there a daytime upload limit?
4: Does my daytime upload/download carry forward into the peak evening limit and add on the total amount?
I do not dispute or have a problem with the 5 hour rule as clearly this was to the minute. I just want to be sure I understand how not to breach limits in the first place. Is there an easy way of managing your connections/downloads to stop when they have munched too much bandwidth? I currently use Tomato firmware on my router but have not explored all it can do yet.
Thanks for your help.
Haven't posted here in a while. I have been popping in from time to time and have seen a lot of posts of late and information regarding traffic shaping and torrent throttling etc. Can someone help me understand traffic shaping?
1: First of all, are torrents throttled IN ADDITION TO standard traffic shaping techniques?
2: I have recently experienced shaping a few times on my connection, and this is not a post to moan about it (plenty of those already) but rather understand it and when I will get shaped. Is anyone able to tell from the graph below why I was shaped between 18:30 to 11:30 ? Which limit did I breach? Daytime download limit, evening peak upload limit or evening peak download limit?
Graph notes: 12-14:30 - downloading, then stopped for a bit manually, then restarted them at 16:00. Dark green shows average sustained. Light green is peak. This is on a 4mb cable connection.
3: Is there a daytime upload limit?
4: Does my daytime upload/download carry forward into the peak evening limit and add on the total amount?
I do not dispute or have a problem with the 5 hour rule as clearly this was to the minute. I just want to be sure I understand how not to breach limits in the first place. Is there an easy way of managing your connections/downloads to stop when they have munched too much bandwidth? I currently use Tomato firmware on my router but have not explored all it can do yet.
Thanks for your help.