fasttrack downloads, queue uploads, possible?

RouterOS Beginner Basics
1

Hi,

At home my bandwidth my ISP provisions for me is not symmetrical. I noticed that when using a rule like:

add action=fasttrack-connection chain=forward connection-state=established,related in-interface=vlan2

both incoming and outgoing packets are fasttracked.

Is there a way to fasttrack packets in one direction only?

Reason I’m asking is that I have 360/36 mbps at home and I’m trying to use a hAP ac my home router, and I’d like it to only shape uploads since it is too slow to deal with the download bandwidth without fasttrack.

2

I am afraid not. If you are fasttracking a connection, all belonging packets are bypassing the firewall.

3

I wonder if I can hack it somehow to have the router os think the connections are separate.

Or what if I had asymmetric routing, such that I’d route all uploads from home lan through a meta router and then through wan and all downloads from wan directly to home lan.

Would fasttrack break such a setup?

4

Disable FastTrack and use DSCP queues instead.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/dscp-mangle-and-queue-trees/100297/1

5

@IntrusDave: not what I was asking:

  1. I want fasttrack for more performance
  2. sfq+limit for upload works fine.

The problem is that both don’t work at the same time, i.e. fasttrack for downloads, sfq for uploads.

6

FastTrack and queues don’t work together. FactTrack by definition bypasses all filters and queues.

7

I know that’s what gives fasttrack the performance, I just wasn’t expecting it to be both directions or none.

Queues and filters can certainly work in one direction only, not sure why fasttrack would be both or none.

8

FastTrack works on a connections. A connection is bidirectional.