Re: [Karlnet] limiting bandwidth

[Chris Conn <cconn@abacom.com>]

Norm Young wrote:
> I've never been able to get that to work.  In practice, what I've seen is
> that in setting the speed on the two interfaces for say, an asymmetrical
> connection like 256/128kbps, results in both interfaces set to 128k.   Thus,
> so far, what I've seen is that you can bw limit with Karlnet, but only as
> long as you want symmetrical.  For anything else, I use Mikrotik.
>
> Norm


Hello,

This is close to what I have observed.  However, I have found that if you set 
the Ethernet to a lower rate than the 802.11b interface, you will in effect be 
asymmetrical, however in the wrong direction for most "desired" asymmetrical 
applications.

Note that throughput-limiting methods are quite difficult to implement without 
causing packet (and therefore application) loss.  The fact you can limit 
inbound traffic with Turbocell is the difficult part of the process.  I 
sincerely hope that someday the issue will be addressed to resolve the upstream 
limitation methods, which in theory are less difficult to implement.

Chris