Something that I would check on is to perform a speed test from someone like broadband reports, (www.broadbandreports.com) ... and see what your actual through put is. As for the overhead of roughly 10k, I would agree that its a bit excessive.
I know from watching my performance monitor from the LEAF box, that I typically have approximately 2-3k of overhead traffic, typically lower. At any rate, I doubt that you have anything misconfigured on the router, and an easy way to check would be to remove the LEAF box as the culprit. Temporarily move your windows box (or a linux box, shouldn't matter) and test again, I doubt you'll see much improvement. I would challenge your ISP for a proper speedtest to ensure you're getting acceptable speeds. joey ----- Original Message ----- From: ochnap2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, September 10, 2005 12:19 pm Subject: [leaf-user] a lot of waste > Hi, I don't know if my question is LEAF especific or some broader > configuration issue. I don't have to much experience in this field, > so I'm > probably asking nonsense. If I really should RTFM, please also tell > which > one, I probably don't know which one also... :) > > Well, here it goes: Up to some time ago everything worked optimally > (two or > three months ago). At that time my ISP installed QOS in my node. > They are a > little local wireless ISP. I've probably been one of the first > subscribers, > so I guess the are up to some point learning while the build the > infraestructure. I have a 256 kbits simmetric? connection, and even > if it is > wireless they give me an ethernet cable to connect to. I'm using > LEAF > Bering-uLibc 2.3 as my firewall/router. > > The problem is this: After they got the QOS running as they wanted, > I started > to have some serious performance problems. All the Linux machines > in my local > network had it's download speed cut by half, and the Windows > machines by a > 30%. All the time and downloading anything from any source. I > called them > but, after some time, they told me that everything was OK, and that > no one > besides me was (is) having such problems, so that I probably had my > router or > PCs misconfigured. > > I did nothing for some time because I had absolutelly no idea what > to do or > where to look, but yesterday I noticed this: I was downloading a > huge file > from a Windows machine and the speed was topping at 22 kbytes/sec, > as usual > lately. That particular machine has also a Kerio personal firewall > installed, ...and the firewall was reporting that the raw download > speed was > ~32 kbytes!!!, not 22 kbytes as the Downloads windows of Firefox > showed. > > So I assume the effective transported payload was 22 kbytes/sec, > but the raw > traffic as 32 kbytes/sec. This is a lot of waste to me... isn't it? > > So, finally, the questions are: > - I didn't touch anything is the LEAF box, but I'm not getting the > same > performace as before the QOS thing. Could it be that they (my ISP) > have > something wrong? What should ask them for? > > - Could it be that only now surfaced a misconfiguration in my > router? What > could cause such a behavior? Should I post some of the > conifguration files > here? > > - Is there any test that could help me pinpoint the exact source of > the > problem? > > - Which FM should I read? > > Thanks a lot for any hint... > > och > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > 1GB gratis, Antivirus y Antispam > Correo Yahoo!, el mejor correo web del mundo > http://correo.yahoo.com.ar > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > PracticesAgile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & > Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
