How to restrict downloading speed limit?

[jibrankh]

Hi,

Here is the scenerio!

Let say i have 256 kbps DSL account and i am sharing net through wingate among my client machines, but what i want to do is that as my total internet speed is 256 kpbs ie almost 30 kilobyte, I want to fix 15 Kilobyte for downloading, voice chat, webcam chat and remaining 15 kbps only for browsing.

I want to do that becuase when one user does Voice chat or Downloading the net becomes very slow for other users as wingate gives the entire speed for downloading to that only client.

How can i do that?

Regards,

[genie]

You can create a rule which reserves 15Kb for TCP traffic through port 80 or create a set of rules all using the same restriction for 15 Kb and have these rules been triggered only for VoIP and such.

[jibrankh]

hi.. thank you for the reply..

I got the concept you just told me.. but how do i do that...
is there any detailed help where i can see it step by step...?

Thank you..

[genie]

Wingate docs has fairly well-defined set of steps on how to set up throttling...

[jamesc]

Here is a small briefing.


1. Scheduler - Rule Selection Method.

First Matching Rule --> Allows you to put the rules into your own order (notice the "Up" and "Down" buttons on the Rules Window.)

Giving Maximum Bandwidth --> Allows you to specify that the rule with the maximum bandwidth is applied first, then the next most bandwidth etc.

Giving Minimum Bandwidth --> Allows you to specify that the rule with the minimum bandwidth is applied first ... similar to above

Preferring Maximum Priority --> Allows you to have the rules applied by the level of there priority, From Highest to lowest.

Preferring Minimum Priority --> Allows you to have the rules applied by the level of there priority, From lowest to highest.


2. Scheduler - Priority levels

Level 1 --> 100 packets will be sent, then the next level 2 priority will be sent with 80 packets, ... level 5 with 10 packets --> then back to level 1 again

But be aware, Once a level "x" has 100 packets "queued", the priortity is shifted to clear the backlog (so users do not get timeouts.


3. Restrictions

Create your New Restriction "Restriction 1"

NOTE:
Percentage of Available --> If set to 50%, it will give this rule 50% of what is left over. So if 70% of your total bandwidth is already being used by the one of your LAN Clients, then Only 15% will be available to this rule.

Kilobits of Traffic. --> This is where you would place in your requirement of xxk

Unrestricted --> This just puts the traffic into "Prioritys" as explained at top.


4. Rules

Select the protocol you require, eg TCP/IP.
Select the restriction you created e.g "New Restriction"


Other Options.

Apply to traffic to/from the local machine": When using a connection method which originates from the WinGate server, e.g. Proxy / WinGate Internet Client).

Apply to induced traffic: Such as for FTP’s secondary connection.

Control MAX TCP Windows: Control the MAX TCP Windows, i.e. how much bandwidth the remote connection should send.

Source and Destination tab should be self explanatory.
e.g. i.e. All ip addresses = 0.0.0.0 / 0.0.0.0
Only computer 192.168.0.1 which has subnet 255.255.255.0 = 192.168.0.1 / 255.255.255.255
All ip addresses on 192.168.0.x which has subnet mask 255.255.255.0 = 192.168.0.0 / 255.255.255.0


Time should be self explanatory too.