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Traffic Shaping on DSL?

Posted by Cliff on from the applying-your-own-bandwidth-throttle dept.

jackla asks: "I'm now looking for software to do traffic-control on my Windows XP box. I am connected with DSL and my upstream is capped at 96kbit/s (down is 1.5Mbit/s) - this means that high(>70kbit/s) upstream utilisation KILLS my downstream: it just drops down to about 400kbit/s and stays there unless there's more upstream space. That said, I read alot about the Linux shaping solution (wondershaper or something) which sounds exactly right, except I need something that works for Windows. What I want to do is prioritize upstream ACKs (for example) so that my downstream isn't affected by upstream use. If anyone heard of a peace of software that can do this, I would love to hear about it." It would be nice if something like this existed cheaply for Windows. I am unaware of such, but maybe a few of you have ideas. Could such a traffic shaper be built using low powered computers? If so, how would you build and configure it so it would maintain compatibility for the single Windows machine, behind it? (Think: homebuilt traffic-shapping appliance)

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  1. Just go to your local shaper by taya0001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had surfboard made by this guy. He will shape it anyway you ask. He could prob fix your problem

  2. Just go to your local shaper by taya0001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had surfboard made by this guy. He will shape it anyway you ask. He could prob fix your problem



  3. WTF is this? by Com2Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok so I know this is horribly off topic and I expect to be moderated as such, but, err, uh

    WTF IS THIS?

    (replies to com2kid@attbi.com please. Nobody 'round me knows WTF it is and that is the third one I have found flying around my house!!)

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    1. Re:WTF is this? by Com2Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      or is that a wasp?

      Notice, connector to stinger is thin, like one little strand. Ain't like any wasp I have ever seen, and I have asked others....

      I saw a transparent shell like structure around one stuck up against the wall, thoguht it was dead, next day it was flying around. Creeps me out. You don't have a sense of scale in that picture, the darn things are /HUGE*/.

      *Huge being defined by a person who lives in the Western part of Washington State and ain't used to anything bigger then his pinky fingernail wandering around. :-D

      That is actualy a slightly smaller one in that picture though, the other ones where bigger . . . .

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    2. Re:WTF is this? by Drachemorder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's a dirt dauber. We have tons of 'em in Mississippi. They're harmless. I didn't know there were any in Washington. Maybe I accidentally took a few of them with me when I visited the state a few years ago :-D

    3. Re:WTF is this? by JayLawrence · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Looks like a paper wasp. This
      link has some wasp identification. Whatever happened to google searches?

    4. Re:WTF is this? by alyandon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's a dirt dauber. We have tons of 'em in Mississippi. They're harmless. I didn't know there were any in Washington. Maybe I accidentally took a few of them with me when I visited the state a few years ago :-D

      I dare you to poke a 12" stick into a fully occupied nest and see how "harmless" they react... :)

    5. Re:WTF is this? by mrbuttle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That appears to be a mud dauber, or mud wasp.

    6. Re:WTF is this? by Com2Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      This may give a better idea what I say when I mean it has no waist.

      Shiiiit my Karma's gonna burn. :(

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    7. Re:WTF is this? by Com2Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Spent around 5 hours on google, ain't seen nothing like this yet.

      I just got done going through a listing of paper wasps, does not appear to be so.

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    8. Re:WTF is this? by Com2Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I am starting to REALLY hate these mild ass winters we have been having lately, shit is starting to move in the area that ain't supposed to be here, FUCK.

      I am used to having NOTHING around here that is the least bit harmless OR scary looking. Well except for under the house in the crawl space where some pretty freaky shit lives that ain't ever seen the light of day, but nobody /ever/ goes down there so that isn't much of a problem. :-D

      (two people in house hold not myself, alergic to stings, one deathly so, thus why I am interested in finding out WTF these things are)

      The lookups I did on google don't seem to show a waist as thin and narrow as this one has though. . . aaah! Also no mention of the weird ass tube thing around in, ::shivers::

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    9. Re:WTF is this? by Com2Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Know of any state wide removal services? Actualy down through oregon would be nice, oregon is the traditional "barrier against creepy crawly things" for washington state. . . .

      (I mean WTF are these things doing in Washington state? They weren't here last year, and fuck, I have asked people who are over 70 years old living in Washington and they haven't ever heard of the things either, WTF are they doing /here/?)

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    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. What do you say... by Cheetah86 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What do you say when your download speed gets crushed by uploading?
    ACK!

  6. Re:hate to sound like a slashdot weenee by SirSlud · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Or innocent. Honestly, I'm doing a poll, why AC?

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  7. Re:Goddamned idiot ZELOTS!!!! by marcushnk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *sigh*
    I guess I'm a sucker for punishment.
    Yes I guess my grammar and spelling is a little poor at times, I tend to suffer from "Mind moves faster than fingers" Syndrome.
    Your grammar is no better, but please note I'm Australian so our rules on Grammar MAY differ to yours.
    Yes I'm (semi) old Gen /.'er, but this site is NOT a Linux enthusiast site. Its a site for (generally) tech news of different relevance, and the people who are interested in that sort of information, tend to be Linux enthusiasts..
    Convince me otherwise and I'll recant.

    I was pissed because he asked for WINDOWS based and not specifically LINUX based.
    I thought of throwing in the packeteer because he never said anything about a plug and play external solution.

    And for the record.. I had an idea what ^H^H^H^H meant, I just wanted to be sure, I asked a question and got an answer.. Why should I be ashamed for that?

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  8. OT: slimmp3 by jovlinger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How are things in mp3 land?

    Are you guys developing any new mp3 players? Other cool gadgets?

    I'm thinking a slimp3 with _wireless_ ethernet would be pretty cool. Also with spdif output.

    Even more fun would be something I hadn't expected.

  9. Borg? by lab16 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why the bill/borg picture?
    Isn't the main theme about dsl/internet?

  10. Ask Slashdot... by bigfatlamer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How to fscking spell.

    Peace? Shapping? Jeebus Kriste!

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