[plug] advanced routing

Ben New ben at leftclick.com.au
Fri Sep 26 14:49:59 WST 2003


Without knowing anything about your location or circumstances, would it 
be possible to just upgrade to adsl?

Assuming you're a regular paying customer in the metro area, you're 
probably paying say $20pm for a dialup connection, then the phone line 
at another $25pm, plus the call costs, you're looking at $50pm+ right? 
You could be on 256k adsl for $45pm (after setup and equipment of course)
http://www.cltechnet.com/dsl-pricing
(I have no affiliation with these guys, just the best prices I've found 
atm, resellers of swift).

Unless of course you're /not/ a regular metro paying customer in which 
case just ignore me ;-)

And of course, this doesn't help you control the traffic, just gives you 
more road to play with :-)

Ben




Ryan Smith wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:19:18PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
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>>In message <20030926053430.GA814 at tesla>
>>on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:34:30PM +0800, Ryan Smith wrote:
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>>>i have a 56k internet connection, and i was wondering if anyone had an
>>>idea of how to limit my bandwidth so i have at least 2k for webpages. i
>>>tried doing this using squid, but it started getting very messy when i
>>>had to use socks for some programs. Then i stumbled across advanced
>>>routing and thought that it could be done using this method, only the
>>>how-tos on the net dont tell you very much so i didnt get very far.
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>>Hmm...if this were BSD I'd say "altq". I can't help you, but just to
>>clarify: you want 2kb/s reserved for *you* making connections to *other*
>>people's websites? Not quite sure how squid was helping you with this
>>(that's my ignorance), and I don't have any Linux answers to this
>>problem, either :)
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>ok i think i left out a few minor details. my internet connection is
>shared over my network. Basically I want to use bandwidth limiting
>somehow so when i open web pages they will open at about 1-2kbps, instead of not opening at all. I found a how-to that uses delay pools.
>http://www.linux.org/docs/lpd/howto/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/
>
>sorry for the lack of information
>Ryan
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