Router with tcp connection limiting QOS features?

[arkid77]

Hi all

I have a nas box thats got rsync installed. Im trying to setup a routine automated job that runs over a few gigs every night.

The problem is that my network grinds to a halt as rsync seems to be using all my uplink bandwidth.

I have an ok cable broadband connection (10mbps, well in download, upload its about 400kbps)


I purchased a linksys rvs4000 as it seemed to have quite good QOS settings and also contained 4x gigabit ports, that i wanted for my gigabit devices on my local lan.

Still, it doesnt actually have a way of limiting simuntanious connections for a specific port, ip address or ip range.

I think this is what i need to resolve the throttling of this backup service.

Does anyone know of any routers with good solid QoS / Bandwidth Management settings that allows a limit on tcp connections?


The only one ive found from my research so far is some of the Draytek range. Ie, the 2950. This can be seen in their simulated interfaces that they show online for prospective customers : http://www.draytek.com/demo/Vigor2950/ipsession.htm


The draytek looks lovely, but has other features that are overkill for me (such as the dual wan etc).

Can anyone assist with some other router suggestions?


Thanks

 

[scotty]

PFSense is known to have really good QoS capabilities. Might be worth a look. It's an open-sourced based router that's super easy to set up, and offers a really powerful feature set, for free. You dont need much horesepower behind it so just about any old machine with a spare NIC or two could run it pretty well.

 

[arkid77]

hi scotty
thanks for the suggestion.

i really want to use a little hardware box though as i want something noise free and using as little power as possible that i can hide away in the corner of a room. oh, i also dont have a spare old pc


any ideas?

 

[thiggins]

You can use an old laptop:
Taming Your Network's Bandwidth Hogs - Part 1

 

[arkid77]

You can use an old laptop:
Taming Your Network's Bandwidth Hogs - Part 1

hi tim

i think you wrote this just as i posted my last response!

 

[thiggins]

I posted it shortly after.

Scotty's suggestion of PFsense is a good one and I was just trying to indicate that you didn't need a big PC.

 

[arkid77]

hi
yeah sorry, good idea but no spare laptop either.
i really want something thats as admin free as possible, so a router is really what im after.

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[YeOldeStonecat]

I don't think any retail home grade off the shelf router will give you what you want.

You can pickup an old laptop for about the price of a decent broadband router.

For a long time now I've run PFSense on an old laptop that I had..an IBM Thinkpad T23. It's just a midrange Pentium 3 with 256 megs and an 8 or 20 gig hard drive.

Doing networking for a living....I've historically always changed my routers at home, trying this and that, testing different routers, I'd usually never go more than a month or two on the same router.

For almost a year now, I've been running on my PFSense laptop. It keeps the kids downloading and torrenting, as well as the wifes aggressive advertisting banner laden online shopping, from affecting my online gaming.

Laptop...small footprint, quiet, low energy, built in battery backup, and...it really is "set it and forget it"...it's as admin free as any other home grade router once you set it up.

You can look around online for hardware appliances designed for PFSense...they have some links of their website for hardware.

In Tims article..you see that "penalty box"...where you can assign a max up and down rate for a specific IP address. That is exactly the feature that you want...set the upload for the rsynch box for something like 16 or 32 or 64.