Can't surf and use the phone at same time

Posts: 29 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 06, 2006 Posts: 29

NateHoy wrote:

Sorry, there's not a thing you can do to help INBOUND audio, except not use your inbound connection as much.

QoS only works outbound. With outbound QoS, you control the packets routed to your Internet modem before they hit the modem.

In order for it to work inbound, you'd have to be able to tell your ISP which packets should get queued to your modem from their side first. And that just isn't going to happen. By the time you see the packets for any sort of QoS control, they've already passed through the bottleneck and are ready to be queued on your LAN.

What is your download speed?

Nate, my download speed is supposed to be 1.5M but it usually cloaks in around 1.3M, but with the Hawking device hooked up around 1.2M

Posts: 114 · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:

The HBB1 shouldn't affect inbound throughput. I have one, and I get the same ~6mbit download speed I get without it. It only affect the priority of outbound packets (and a very good job at this it does).

-Craig

Posts: 29 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 06, 2006 Posts: 29

NateHoy wrote:

Sorry, there's not a thing you can do to help INBOUND audio, except not use your inbound connection as much.

QoS only works outbound. With outbound QoS, you control the packets routed to your Internet modem before they hit the modem.

In order for it to work inbound, you'd have to be able to tell your ISP which packets should get queued to your modem from their side first. And that just isn't going to happen. By the time you see the packets for any sort of QoS control, they've already passed through the bottleneck and are ready to be queued on your LAN.

What is your download speed?

Nate, just focusing a routers ability to handle P2P, (without mentioning QOS at this point) ,is there any difference between the way WRT54G v4 with tibur software, and WRT54G v. 5 with regular linkus software installed. Is it the hardware or the software that manages the P2P better.

And I did put the global connections under 100 and it seems to work better. What client do you use?

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:43 am Post subject:

P2P on the V5: Yes, as far as I know the WRT54G V5 still uses the limited connection table, though they have done a "fix for P2P" that may simply be lowering the connection timeout to something reasonable so table entries can be re-used. I don't own one so I can't say for sure. But it's a software setting that tends to cause (and fix) the problem.

BT Client: I use Azureus. I have also tried uTorrent.

Posts: 29 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 06, 2006 Posts: 29

NateHoy wrote:

P2P on the V5: Yes, as far as I know the WRT54G V5 still uses the limited connection table, though they have done a "fix for P2P" that may simply be lowering the connection timeout to something reasonable so table entries can be re-used. I don't own one so I can't say for sure. But it's a software setting that tends to cause (and fix) the problem.

BT Client: I use Azureus. I have also tried uTorrent.

Nate, your the best! However, I forgot to ask, do you portforward when you are using a BT Client. I have to when I use Azereus.
I'm afraid, however, when I do portforward, I'm opening myself up to hackers, even though I have a software firewall.

THanks,

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject:

I do, but I use UPnP, so the port forwarding only happens when I am running Azureus (which is pretty much all the time, but still...).

Yes, port forwarding gives a potential, but unlikely, route for hackers. But the most likely vector is the Azureus client itself, which would be vulnerable whether you port forwarded or not.

In order to be vulnerable on the oddball ports BitTorrent uses, you'd have to have another server waiting for connections on that port. That's not very likely on a port attack. And your software firewall (smart move!) gives you a slight extra layer of protection there.

I'm not saying BitTorrent is 100% safe. In fact, I'm in the process of slapping together a Linux box to run Torrents on and get them off my main box. But as long as you take reasonable precautions and use a somewhat trusted client, you're probably OK.

PS: Running Windows as a limited user for BitTorrent is another really, really good idea.