Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:51:22 -0600 From: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! Message-ID: <AANLkTimy8DV_h64QX_z-b97gbXQL4PwasA847BoFADEM@mail.gmail.com>
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Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people who like to download large files and play online games, it's not good. I tried traffic shaping with PF, which works - almost: I tried the home example in the PF book, but it doesn't work out so well. I can throttle users with no trouble, but even so that doesn't seem to help the latency issue unless I choke the 'big file download' users almost completely off. It's like nothing helps. I tried a priority based queue where all traffic on the gaming ports was placed in front of all other traffic, and while I saw a very mild improvement, latency was still really pitiful. Is there anything else I can do? Anyone have a similar setup and wish to share config files? Are there some sysctl's that would help this out or something. I'm almost ready to just buy a 'gaming' *gag* router which implements their own brand of QoS, but don't want to sink to that level if I don't have to. Help! -Modulok-
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