RV042G Bandwidth Management

[FunkyTown]

Hello,

I have a Cisco RV042G router and am using only WAN1. WAN2 is disabled because I only have one internet connection. My current ISP speeds are 30 mbps download/ 10 mbps upload.

I need priority on my PBX so the phones will work well. I set 2 rules under bandwidth management:

IP rate control rules:
192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.109 --> 100 min 1000 max kbps upload
192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.109 --> 100 min 1000 max kbps download

When doing a network speed test I was getting 30 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up. After adding this rule I get 23 Mbps down and 9 Mbps up.

What is not explained in the Cisco manual is how this works. Does the router rope of 1000 kb for each IP address giving me the lower speeds when I do a scan? That's what is seems to be doing.

There is another bandwidth management type called "Priority". Should this be set too? Or if you have rate control rules set you do not set priority?

The manuals do not explain this. If anyone happens to know I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks.

 

[pw40b]

I tried the same thing just now to test it. Was getting 55 down before, then 31 down with either rate limiting for 10 IPs, OR priority.

So I think it may be that just the act of trying to manage the bandwidth decreases the bandwidth?

You could do more extensive testing to load up the network and see if you are still getting the "guaranteed" bandwidth on the priority services.


I assume you have seen the help text:
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Bandwidth Management Type

Choose one of the following management options:

Rate Control: Choose this option to specify minimum (guaranteed) bandwidth and maximum (limited) bandwidth for each service or IP address.
Priority: Choose this option to manage the bandwidth by identifying high- priority and low-priority services.
Select an Interface. Add the services that are subject to bandwidth management.

 

[FunkyTown]

Thanks. Yes I did read that. What I was trying to determine isn't really communicated in that though. Here's an example of what I am curious about. If I define this:

UDP 5060 range: 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.105 Min:80 Max:100

Is that the same as saying:
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.100 Min:80 Max:100
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.101 Min:80 Max:100
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.102 Min:80 Max:100
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.103 Min:80 Max:100
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.104 Min:80 Max:100
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.105 Min:80 Max:100

Or does that mean:
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.100 Min:13 Max:17
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.101 Min:13 Max:17
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.102 Min:13 Max:17
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.103 Min:13 Max:17
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.104 Min:13 Max:17
UDP 5060 IP: 192.168.1.105 Min:13 Max:17

Does it divide the min max into the number of IP addresses in the range or does it assign each of them the full min/max. I'm not sure how it works. It's not documented. I tried testing but the results of my tests are not demonstrating whats happening. I don't know if it even acknowledges the settings much at all, or whether priority should be set in conjunction with bandwidth properties.