Comments on: Use bandwidth shapers (wondershaper or trickle) to limit internet connection speed

By: Mike Roussin

Mike Roussin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:25:37 +0000

To whom it concerns:

My problem was following this guide without reading the readme file.

This…

up /sbin/wondershaper eth1 downspeed upspeed

down /sbin/wondershaper clear eth1

is wrong.

it should be…

up /usr/sbin/wondershaper eth1 downspeed upspeed

down /usr/sbin/wondershaper clear eth1

see the readme…

/usr/share/doc/wondershaper/README.Debian.gz

Spare yourself the trouble. Follow the readme not this webpage.

regards,

Mike Roussin

By: Mike Roussin

Mike Roussin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:35:18 +0000

I have not been able to find a means of making bandwidth setting permanent on wlan0. wlan0 is not in my /etc/network/interfaces so if I append the two lines:

up /sbin/wondershaper eth1 downspeed upspeed

down /sbin/wondershaper clear eth1

my ethernet bandwidth is limited but not my wlan0.
wondershaper has worked marvelously on my desktops but not on my laptops. I plan to execute a shell script at start up up to set wondershaper up/down limits. Please reply if there is an easier way to make wlan0 limits permanent.

Thanks,

mroussin51

By: rider skn

rider skn — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:21:07 +0000

trickle does not perform its job perfectly. it is wondershaper that is good. i have a fast but limited data connection, so when i browse through videos, i loose my MBs very fast and they go waste… so i controlled my internet speed and now it is saving my money… thank you

By: zipizap123

zipizap123 — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:08:43 +0000

NOTE: trickle can only limit bandwidth of applications that are dinamically linked.

As explained in linux.com [http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/61293]

”
Any user on the system can run Trickle without needing administrative privileges. The software can handle only TCP stream connections, so it cannot shape traffic for network services that uses UDP stream connections, such as DNS (Bind) and TFTP. Actually, it cannot work with all network services that use TCP streams; because trickle uses the dynamic linker and loader, it can handle only network services that uses dynamic libraries (glibc) and not any programs that are statically linked. You can check whether a network service or command uses dynamic libraries with help of the ldd command, which prints shared library dependencies, so that you can see exactly what libraries are used with the specific command. For example to check whether FTP uses dynamic libraries:

~# ldd /usr/bin/ftp | grep libc.so
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d42000)

Since I get back a positive result, I can use shape FTP traffic on my system. If the ldd and grep combination returns no result, a command will not work with trickle.
”

So in my case, trickle is not enough for Spotify which is running through Wine..

By: zipizap123

zipizap123 — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:55:11 +0000

to use trickle there is no need to “sudo” it, you can simply:

trickle -d 20 -u 20 wget http://bigfile

By: jrjones

jrjones — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:15:04 +0000

if we have 512 downlink speed and 128 uplink speed subscribed from our ISP, and we hav more or less 150 nodes to cutter… what would be the appropriate shaping for downlink and uplink settings?

By: Valentin

Valentin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:33:27 +0000

WebHTB is the best

http://webhtb.sourceforge.net

By: aff

aff — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:46:40 +0000

Note:- Speed should be in KB

That is, in kilobits.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:09:48 +0000

Apt links please!