To give you an idea of how awesome this is, the SMC cable modem started acting up, so we had to switch to a backup link (16/2). After adjusting the queues accordingly, customers were still happy with overall performance, even though we flatlined the bandwidth for 2 days:
With regards to QOS on MT, I consider it to be tried and true... I can transfer massive amounts of data, while the family watches streaming moovies, while I'm playing games and talking on the phone. I have to set the top-level parent queue to about 90% of my actual capacity, but it works awesome!
The one thing I have not yet been able to figure out how to implement, is bandwidth management and QOS at the same time for 100's or even 1000's of users.
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
Bandwidth packages: 768k, 1.5M, 3M, and eventually a 6M and 12M package, with QOS to prioritize by type of traffic.
If Normis wants to use VOIP on his 768k package, the quality of his call should not suffer because everyone else is watching streaming moovies.
When Janisk browses the web, it should be snappy and responsive, even if the network is completely congested with other traffic.
And when Sergejs wants to waste some time playing an online game, he should not lag out because someone's downloading a thousand different torrents.
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So, how can I do both bandwidth management and QOS at the same time?
I read that in ROS6, one can use PCQ in simple queues, which would leave the Queue Tree open for QOS, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to re-create my PCQ Queue Tree in Simple Queues. If there's a working example out there, I've not yet found it.
Can someone help me translate this queue tree into Simple Queues?
ros code
/queue tree add disabled=yes limit-at=34M max-limit=40M name=total_down parent=global-out add disabled=yes limit-at=5M max-limit=8M name=total_up parent=global-out add disabled=yes name=Bronze_Upload packet-mark=Bronze_Upload parent=total_up queue=pcq_bronze_up add disabled=yes name=Bronze_Download packet-mark=Bronze_Download parent=total_down queue=pcq_bronze_down add disabled=yes name=Silver_Upload packet-mark=Silver_Upload parent=total_up queue=pcq_silver_up add disabled=yes name=Silver_Download packet-mark=Silver_Download parent=total_down queue=pcq_silver_down add disabled=yes name=Gold_Upload packet-mark=Gold_Upload parent=total_up queue=pcq_gold_up add disabled=yes name=Gold_Download packet-mark=Gold_Download parent=total_down queue=pcq_gold_down add disabled=yes name=Plat_Download packet-mark=Plat_Download parent=total_down queue=pcq_plat_down add disabled=yes name=Plat_Upload packet-mark=Plat_Upload parent=total_up queue=pcq_plat_upPS... WTF is this "can't post about MOOVIES" ??? don't we all have customers who watch MOOVIES on the internet? Doesn't this use up bandwdith and affect network performance? Isn't this a VALID topic of conversation? Isn't it a little pedantic and childish for MT to put a freaking word filter on this?
Thanks...