bandwidth control using percentage available

[ngrayson]

Has anyone tried this feature?

I have a line speed of 2.4M (a problem of living in the sticks) and set up a restriction of 10% usage as a test. This was assigned to a user and I expected around 240K (ish) throughput. When I performed a test to an online site, I got much more than this so I'm not convinced it works.

If I limit by rate i.e. I set to 200Kbps, and check the same site then thats what i get even though the line is clearly capable of higher.

Did I mis something or is this feature fickle?

Cheers
Neil

[logan]

I believe the percentage is based on the total bandwidth of the network adaptor, not the internet bandwidth available through that adaptor. So for example, 25% of of a 100Mbit network adaptor is 25Mbit, which is considerably more than 200kbit. This feature works correctly when used with an internet connection that can report it's available bandwidth to WinGate, e.g. a dial up internet conenction or PCI DSL modem. I am told that we will be revising this feature in WinGate 7.

[ngrayson]

Hmm,

I think you misunderstand me, my fault for not explaining fully. My Wingate PC is stand alone, the internet connection is delivered via a USB ADSL modem and Indeed my connection speed is reported both by its driver and by Wingate. It shows in the wingate network tab as 2.4Mbps. The clients are then served via a 100Mb ethernet adapter into a switch.

For tetsing I used one of these web sites which works out throughput for you with no limits in place (several runs to get an average). I then hard limited to 200Kbps in wingate and that, after several runs worked out at 199K close enough for me.

I think your statement assummed that the wingate PC is being fed from an ADSL router via an ethernet interface. I could understand that, in these conditions, wingate would have no idea of the throughput of ADSL router and would apply a % of the ethernet connection not the available throughput.

As per paragraph 1, my internet is a direct connect to the PC via a USB 2 ADSL modem. The driver presents this as a network interface and the utils which came with it report 2.4M as does wingate so I think my expectation under these conditions that its should be a % of 2.4M is valid and yet is seems to not limit it at all.

As a stop gap, I have assigned rules based on priorities and queue lengths which has sort of worked but is not ideal.

I'll wait for wingate 2007/8/9 and see what that brings whenever it brings it

Neil

[logan]

I must admit, I have never actually used or tested the percentage restriction option before, so I could be wrong. Maybe one of the developers on the forum could provide more insight, genie?