I would like to set up a system that would give my customers 1 meg of service for 30 minutes and then start to slowly (over15 additional minutes) ramp down that speed down to 256k. If the connection has been idol for 15 minutes then everything resets and gets ready to start again. The reason is that I have some people that stay on for days and weeks at max speed and dont even come up for air. I think they are downloading and uploading movies with emule/bittorrent or something. I have some customers complaining that they cant get on and hope that this would allow everyone a chance to get on while ramping down the hogs. Any thought as to how to do this?
Bursts, Simple queue, Or Rx/tx Bursting. What QOS Do you use?
Right now I use Simple Q and pcq for bandwidth. I looked at burst and if I understand it correctly ever one is ignored until the burst is finished. That isnt what Im looking for. Basicly it is a pcq with a time limit as to how much and how long it is running and then start to ramp down to a fixed amount, say 256k. I just want to stop some of the customers from having a solid connections for hours and days on end. There are a few bandwidth hogs that are spoiling it for others. With the cost of 600/mth for a T1 and me charging 29/mth for 256k, it doesnt take long befor a few hogs eat up the T1. Maybe it is some kind of script that is needed. Just not sure which way to go.
well i use simple Queue’s right now, and burst works great for me, It is PER client, if a clients starts munching on the connection for to long he get limited back to a certian rate untill he stops then it goes back to his previous rate limit. this is per client and not total clients. I was in the same boat as you and this is how i stopped it. Look into bursts a little more…
Set burst of 512k for 512k package.
set burst time of 2 hours 7200 seconds.
Set rate after burst time expires 128k Until consumption stops, then burst rate is re-inforced
thats about as simple as i can make it. The clients can be on a burst for 2 hours at the package rate then there cut down to a much smaller rate untill they stop downloading so fast. you can change the time etc etc… Works for me mite work for you if you look into it. -Jordan
Thanks for the reply. I’ll look into this further. The manual lead me to believe that when the burst started that it ignored everyone else until the burst finished. Did I mis read this? If other clients can access the AP while the burst is occuring for that one client then it will work for me.
You read wrong, The burst is per client dosent matter how many people.. My description above is per client no matter what.. -Jordan