[Commotion-dev] Bandwidth limiting on Commotion OpenWRT?

Andy Gunn gunn at newamerica.net
Tue Oct 16 16:04:01 UTC 2012


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Great - thanks Seamus.

Does the QOS configuration actually limit the Bandwidth used, or does
it just use the Download and Upload speeds to calculate the priority
based on available bandwidth?



On 10/16/2012 11:40 AM, Seamus Tuohy wrote:
> Hey Andy,
> 
> The QOS menu under Network allows you to choose upload and
> download speed by interface. I will look into the code and see if I
> can't whip up a quick bit of documentation on how to limit the
> bandwidth shared.
> 
> Seamus
> 
> On 10/16/2012 11:15 AM, Andy Gunn wrote:
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>> The bandwidth limits need to be imposed not on the clients 
>> connected to the Access Point, but on the eth0 Ethernet port
>> that is connected to a router providing Internet access.
> 
>> So, yes - it needs to throttle the node only if it is acting as a
>>  gateway, and not on the AP but on the "plug" interface.
> 
>> Not sure if I am explaining this well - does that make sense? -A
> 
> 
>> On 10/16/2012 11:10 AM, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
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> 
>> -- Andy Gunn Field Engineer, Open Technology Institute New
>> America Foundation 202-596-3484 http://oti.newamerica.net
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Andy Gunn
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