It is an interesting approach to put a software throttler on the client's PC to schedule packet transfers. That's something the other units don't have. I'll stick with MikroTik for now though. It's feature rich, and easy to configure. (once you get your head wrapped around the way they do things..)
Kevin Summers KISTech Internet Services Inc. www.kistech.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:05 AM > To: smartBridges > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Rate limiting, QoS, and a nice user > experance enhancement... > > > Welcome to 1997. ;-D > > Traffic shaping does take a huge difference, but there are many > alternatives to frottle. FreeBSD Dummynet, Linux CBQ, YDI BCU, ETInc, > Allot, Packateer, Mikrotik, Cisco rate-limit, etc etc etc. > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Shawn Mitchell wrote: > > > I haven't seen anyone mention this, so I'm going to go ahead > and announce it > > on here... > > > > > > http://frottle.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > Go check it out. I've been playing with it for a little while, and it's > > actually made a large diff on stuff. > > > > >From their site: > > > > "Frottle (Freenet throttle) is an open source GNU GPL project to control > > traffic on wireless networks. Such control eliminates the > common hidden-node > > effect even on large scale wireless networks. Frottle is currently only > > available for Linux wireless gateways using iptables firewalls, > with plans > > to develop a windows client in the future. > > > > Frottle works by scheduling the traffic of each client, using a > master node > > to co-ordinate actions. This eliminates collisions, and prevents clients > > with stronger signals from receiving bandwidth bias. > > > > Frottle has been developed and tested on the large community wireless > > network of WaFreeNet. We have found running frottle has given us a > > significant improvment in the network usability. Testing results will be > > documented here as time permits." > > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type > subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type > unsubscribe smartBridges) > > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type > unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
