Wonder Shaper - OMFG it WORKS !!!!! Fantastic !

Lostie · 12 Nov 2002 at 08:41

My findings are in THIS thread in the Internet & Networking forum, I guess Linux-specific questions should be asked here.

Anyway this amazing piece of software eliminates most lag/latency on my ADSL connection, allowing me to play online games and websurf with great speed DURING huge uploads and downloads

Read the above thread for my findings.

Lostie · 12 Nov 2002 at 09:10

Originally posted by fIREfox
Well done and great to hear it m8. Did you find it plain sailing or need to flange a little?

It was simply a case of turning on a load of options in the kernel, and running the wonder shaper script. That's all there is to it !

So yes it was plain sailing, far easier than I'd imagined !

Lostie · 12 Nov 2002 at 09:58

UPDATE: I've just found a FAR better script than wonder shaper that uses the packet-marking feature of iptables and manages bandwidth even more efficiently! It's much harder to set up though as it requires the HTB and IMQ kernel patches. That's my next goal

Lostie · 12 Nov 2002 at 18:39

Originally posted by Shak
Nice, Im wondering about getting another NIC and setting this up with it, would it work for only part of a network?

I have two parts to mine, on that is routed by a hardware router and the other could be by the webserver machine. Is it worth it?

You should be able to use just one NIC plugged into a hub/switch to be honest, you will need to create a virtual NIC/alias to do the wonder shaping on though

You can have it limit the bandwidth of any host, or hosts on your network, or even just ports and/or protocols...

Lostie · 13 Nov 2002 at 18:00

Yes I'm using Slackware 8.1.01.

UPDATE: I've now found a USERSPACE daemon that does the same thing that wondershaper does, that means no need to recompile the kernel ! Watch this space

Lostie · 13 Nov 2002 at 21:12

Performance with wshaper improves the more bandwidth you have, so it's idealy suited to adsl/cable connections but as you have proven it can drastically improve the performance of your connection even on ISDN or 56k modems!

Also, it's FAR FAR better at coping with uploads than downloads - uploads can be precisely controlled whilst downloads cannot.

Since then I have found 2 other solutions that both puport to be loads better than wonder shaper, I'll be testing them soon and will report findings here