Gaff
Every Villain Is Lemons
join:1999-09-05
Mineral Wells, TX
clubs:
 ·AT&T Southwest
 ·Suddenlink
| Going from DD-WRT to Tomato for QoS
I've had my WRT54GL for a few months now and have been very happy with it, on the whole, running DD-WRT v24-SP1.
The only thing I have never been happy with is the QoS. I have tweaked the hell out of it but it never seems to make anything other than a marginal difference, if that.
Case in point, tonight I was downloading a large file (4GB) via FTP. I set a rule for FTP lowering its priority to Bulk and WoW was set to Express. I login to WoW and instead of my normal ping of ~75 I am sitting around 1,500.
I even telnet'd into the router itself to check that the rules were being applied correctly, and they were.
I then completely erased all of my QoS settings and re-did them all based on their port number instead of the service name (layer7). I thought perhaps this would make a difference. I logged into WoW and again saw a gigantic ping, so clearly my traffic was not being prioritised correctly.
I googled around and saw that I was not the only one who thought that DD-WRT's QoS was bad, and many posts recommended Tomato both in general and for QoS specifically.
So, can anyone here give me any advice or their experiences with regards to QoS on Tomato? I've been happy with DD-WRT to date but fully working QoS is something I would quite like to happen, and I've spent literally hours and hours recently tweaking the QoS on DD-WRT with essentially no results. |
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DoC_DaR
join:2004-05-22
Middleburg, FL
 ·ooma
·Vonage
·magicjack.com
·Windstream
·Comcast
| I have also moved from DD-WRT to Tomato. I use a WRT54GS V2 and have used DD-WRT VPN V24-SP1. My VOIP still had issues when using P2P utilities regardless of my QOS settings. I am not an expert on QOS, just followed instructions in forums and wiki's. Switched to Tomato v23 OpenVPN-GUI. Turned on TCP-Vegas in QOS with no other settings. So far I have had no further problems and my VPN is still fully functional. DD-WRT also has TCP-Vegas in V24-SP2, which is currently still being developed, but I like Tomato V23 w/OpenVPN-Gui allot and will stick with it for now. |
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scubascythan
join:2005-05-14
1 edit | reply to Gaff
Tomato Mod with IP/MAC Bandwidth limiting is the best. I find the QOS on both Tomato/DDWRT weak when it comes to throttling other users when I game, but a hard bandwidth limit by IP works great.
»www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showt···?t=58571
Download the latest here:
»victek.is-a-geek.com/tomato.html |
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Gaff
Every Villain Is Lemons
join:1999-09-05
Mineral Wells, TX
clubs:
1 edit | Thanks for those links, I will check them out. |
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