Adaptive Qos with VPN client - Download registers as Upload

[st3v3n]

Tigerdog, SAQ indeed. The last time we had a local outage, SAQ immediately started in without knowing it wasn't due to anything I had control over. I grabbed a backup router I'd been working with, handed it to her and told her I had a headache and was going to bed. Stunned look when I suggested in a respectful tone, she might have better luck getting it back online, followed by absolute silence. Seems to have put the whole matter into perspective. Tis the combined blessing/curse of being a spouse and resident IT wizard in your home network palace.

 

[brummygit]

It might be a wider issue - I've reported (and Asus confirmed it would be fixed in the 'next' version) that QoS also shows and manages inbound multicast traffic for my IPTV as upload. This causes the IPTV to be constrained by my upload bandwidth as QoS throttles it once we hit capacity (which an 8Mb stream on 13Mb upload soon does).

That was a few versions ago and they still haven't fixed it. I was desperately hoping 382 would bring good news.

I wonder if they have a fundamental issue with special traffic being mis-classified.

 

[Jack Yaz]

I've "fixed" my issue and VPN clients can now use the full download, by waiving the upload limit for it. It's a horrendous bodged workaround but seems to do the trick.

 

[st3v3n]

Yeah, sad anyone has have to play this game but if that's what gets the job done, i.e., grant unlimited (faux) upload bandwidth. This one bug, when added to the new closed-source stream induces some skepticism in the AIMesh hype. If Asus engineers would spend a day or two quashing the small, long-standing, documented iugs, it would elevate their credibility. Time will continue to tell..

 

[skeal]

I have had this setting arrangement for ever and it works no problems. My upload bandwidth is not 80mbs it is 15mbs. Keeping them the same seems to encourage good bandwidth allocation.

 

[st3v3n]

skeal, I found that 80 (or even 40) produced the same cure. Wonder if this user solution would ever be covered by an Asus 'bug bounty' - Ha, if only Curious, with adaptive QoS, AB Solution and Skynet working, what are your average temps and CPU load on a a good day, on either router?

 

[skeal]

skeal, I found that 80 (or even 40) produced the same cure. Wonder if this user solution would ever be covered by an Asus 'bug bounty' - Ha, if only Curious, with adaptive QoS, AB Solution and Skynet working, what are your average temps and CPU load on a a good day, on either router?

My CPU temps on both routers are fan cooled so they are low. CPU load is never over 5% total most times. I don't torrent or anything like that, just stream video.

 

[skeal]

Ram use is high but to be expected.

 

[st3v3n]

Thanks, our temps usually are between 430- 5o more than 49 and we always run the fan on ours. Am hoping with the newer code coming along one of these days, our 3200 will be able to take advantage of 128KV of NVRAM. Since we don't have much use for adaptive QoS, I'd like to test the AV Solution and Skynet, otherwise, regular RAM usage stays the same, running two concurrent OpenVPN tunnels, one for video streaming.

 

[skeal]

Thanks, our temps usually are between 430- 5o more than 49 and we always run the fan on ours. Am hoping with the newer code coming along one of these days, our 3200 will be able to take advantage of 128KV of NVRAM. Since we don't have much use for adaptive QoS, I'd like to test the AV Solution and Skynet, otherwise, regular RAM usage stays the same, running two concurrent OpenVPN tunnels, one for video streaming.

If you try Skynet and AB-Solution with all the bells and whistles you can expect a significant increase in ram usage. This is expected. Why not use ram if you have it. I recommend a swap file install. You can do this with AMTM by @thelonelycoder .

 

[skeal]

AMTM is "asus merlin terminal menu" You can install all of it with this tiny little script. Install AMTM first.

 

[st3v3n]

skeal, Thanks, I've been reading up on both packages as other projects, time and weather permits. The swap file seems the best option so will study it. We're migrating from PfSense to OPNsense on our main box, neither here or there, but it's always fun to see what performance we can wring out of these with Merlin.

 

[Jack Yaz]

I have had this setting arrangement for ever and it works no problems. My upload bandwidth is not 80mbs it is 15mbs. Keeping them the same seems to encourage good bandwidth allocation.

Out of interest what happens to your ping on one device if you throw a huge upload from on another device?

 

[skeal]

Out of interest what happens to your ping on one device if you throw a huge upload from on another device?

I have not tried that yet but I will and get back to you. I stream media to my TV and I download from Spotify at the same time and no problems. Spotify just goes like crazy and no problems with the streaming at all.