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--- bwlimit [2024/10/23 15:54] – [Bandwidth Limiter for LAN (br0)] -Condense, formatting hogwild
+++ bwlimit [2025/05/08 16:45] (current) – [Bandwidth Limiter for LAN (br0)] -Condense hogwild
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 Confusingly, Bandwidth Limiter shares a few settings with QoS. When Bandwidth Limiter is enabled, QoS should be disabled, and vice versa. If both are enabled, they will conflict with each other and neither will work.
-Bandwidth Limiter may not work if you enable some IPv6 service types that use tunelling, such as 6in4. Their encryption is incompatible with Bandwidth Limiter.
+Bandwidth Limiter may not work if you enable some IPv6 service types that use tunneling, such as 6in4. Their encryption is incompatible with it.
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 Your menu may have different options, depending on the hardware.
-An easy way to find the "guilty" clients using too much bandwidth is to check the //IP Traffic///[[ipt-graphs|View Graphs]] menu. There, a pie chart clearly indicates the bandwidth used by each address. If you're unsure whether the guilty client is active now, check its history using the Last 24 Hours, Weekly or Monthly menus.
+An easy way to find the clients using too much bandwidth is to check the //IP Traffic///[[ipt-graphs|View Graphs]] menu. There, a pie chart clearly indicates the bandwidth used by each address. If you're unsure whether the guilty client is active now, check its history using the Last 24 Hours, Weekly or Monthly menus.
 ===== Bandwidth Limiter for LAN (br0) =====
-**Enable Limiter: **Enables Bandwidth Limiter for the main LAN. Rules in each table can be enabled/disabled individually.
+**Enable Limiter: **enables Bandwidth Limiter for the main LAN. Rules in each table can be enabled/disabled individually.
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-**Max Available Download:** The Maximum Available Download speed of the network's Internet connection.
+**Max Available Download:** the maximum available download speed of the network's Internet connection.
 This is not literal. Calculate it using these steps:
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-This field is shared. //You can only enter one address in a row at a time.// See NOTE below.
+This field is shared. //You can enter only one address in a row at a time.// See NOTE below.
 There's a quicker, easier way to enter individual IP/MAC Addresses. In [[status-devices|Device List]], click on [bwlimit] for each client to limit. You'll then be taken back to the Bandwidth Limiter menu to enter settings for that address.
-IP addresses entered should be specified using a static IP, or DHCP Reservation. If you don't, clients might be assigned a different IP address each time. Bandwidth Limiter won't not work with clients whose addresses changed from what you first configured. Entering MAC addresses instead will avoid that problem, since generally, they don't change.
+IP addresses entered should be specified using a static IP, or DHCP Reservation. Otherwise, clients might be assigned a different IP address each time. Bandwidth Limiter won't not work with clients whose addresses changed from what you first configured. Entering MAC addresses instead will avoid that problem, since generally, they don't change.
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-**DLRate:** The minimum download speed the router tries to allocate to a client when other listed clients are downloading.
+**DLRate:** the minimum download speed the router tries to allocate to a client when other listed clients are downloading.
 The total of this column for all clients on the list should not surpass the total “Download Bandwidth.” If the amount exceeds “Download Bandwidth”, the entered data will serve no purpose when all network clients are downloading data.
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-**DLCeil:** The maximum download speed FreshTomato will allocate to the client when more bandwidth is available.
+**DLCeil:** the maximum download speed FreshTomato will allocate to the client when more bandwidth is available.
 The conditions include when other network clients are off, or using less bandwidth than normal. The less bandwidth they use, the more is available to allocate to the specified clients, especially those categorized as higher priority.
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-**Priority:** Sets the position of the bandwidth rule (relative to other clients) in the netfilter module.
+**Priority:** sets the position of the bandwidth rule (relative to other clients) in the netfilter module.
-FreshTomato has five priority settings. The higher the setting, the more preference will be given to that client's allocated bandwidth, relative to other clients. Clients with higher priority will also experience lower latency, but only as a side effect of being earlier than other clients in netfilter's priority list.
+FreshTomato has five priority settings. The higher the setting, the more preference given to that client's allocated bandwidth, relative to other clients. Higher priority clients will also experience lower latency, but only as a side effect of being earlier than other clients in netfilter's priority list.
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-**TCP Limit:** The maximum number of active connections for this address.
+**TCP Limit:** the maximum number of active connections for this address.
 Limiting active TCP connections is useful for avoiding network saturation due to download utilities, or p2p programs (BitTorrent).
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-**UDP Limit:** The maximum UDP connections that can be opened per second for the specified address.
+**UDP Limit:** the maximum UDP connections that can be opened per second for the specified address.
 This can help limit network saturation due to download utilities, or P2P programs like BitTorrent.
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-**Description**: An optional field in where you can add a label to the rule in that row (for reference purposes only).
+**Description**: an optional field to add a label to the rule in that row (for reference only).
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-**Enable:** Enables Bandwidth Limiter.
+**Enable:** enables Bandwidth Limiter.
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-**Download rate:** The minimum download speed the router tries to allocate to a client when other clients on the list are also downloading.
+**Download rate:** the minimum download speed the router allocates to a client when other listed clients are downloading.
 The column total for all clients on the list shouldn't exceed total “Download Bandwidth.” If the amount exceeds “Download Bandwidth”, data entered will serve no purpose when all network clients are downloading data.
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-**Download ceil:** The maximum download speed FreshTomato will allocate to the client when more bandwidth is available.
+**Download ceil:** the maximum download speed FreshTomato allocates to the client when more bandwidth is available.
-This includes when other network clients are off, or using less bandwidth than normal. The less bandwidth they use, the more becomes available to allocate to the specified clients. This is especially true for those clients categorized with higher priority settings.\\  \\ {{::bandwidth_limiter-default_class_for_unlisted_mac-ips_in_lan0-2024.1.png?543}}\\ \\
+This includes when other network clients are off, or using less bandwidth than normal. The less bandwidth they use, the more becomes available to allocate to the specified clients. This is especially true for those clients categorized with higher priority settings.\\  \\  \\ {{::bandwidth_limiter-default_class_for_unlisted_mac-ips_in_lan0-2024.1.png?543}}\\ \\
-**Upload rate: **The minimum upload speed the router tries to allocate to the client when other clients on the list are downloading.
+**Upload rate: **the minimum upload speed the router tries to allocate to the client when other listed clients are downloading.
 The total of this column for all clients on the list should not exceed the total “Upload Bandwidth.” If the amount exceeds “Upload Bandwidth”, the data entered will serve no purpose when all network clients are uploading data.
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-**Upload ceiling: **The maximum download speed FreshTomato will allocate to the client when more bandwidth is available.
+**Upload ceiling: **the maximum download speed FreshTomato will allocate to the client when more bandwidth is available.
 This includes when other clients are off, or using less bandwidth than normal. The less bandwidth they use, the more becomes available to allocate to specified clients. This is especially true for clients categorized with a higher priority.
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-**Priority:** Sets the position of the bandwidth rule, relative to other clients in the netfilter module.
+**Priority:** sets the position of the bandwidth rule, relative to other clients in the netfilter module.
 FreshTomato has five priority settings:
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-**TCP Limit:** The maximum number of active TCP connections for this address.
+**TCP Limit:** the maximum number of active TCP connections for this address.
 Limiting active TCP connections can help avoid network saturation due to download utilities or P2P programs, like BitTorrent.
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-**UDP Limit: **The maximum UDP connections per second that can be opened for the specified address.
+**UDP Limit: **the maximum UDP connections per second that can be opened for the specified address.
 This can help limit network saturation due to download utilities or P2P programs like BitTorrent.
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 ===== Default Class for LAN1 (br1) =====
-As said above, settings here are analogous to the Default Class for LAN0 (br0) section above, but instead apply to clients on VLAN1 [ also known as LAN1/(bridge 1) ] .
+As above, settings here are analogous to the Default Class for LAN0 (br0) section above, but instead apply to clients on VLAN1 [ also known as LAN1/(bridge 1) ] .
-The same principles apply here as with the **Default Class for LAN (br0) **section, but to the LAN known as: LAN1/(br1). These settings will be explained again here for your convenience.
+The same principles apply as with the **Default Class for LAN (br0) **section, but to the LAN known as: LAN1/(br1). These settings will be explained again here for your convenience.
-Clients with a compatible static IP could still gain network access. FreshTomato needs a way to ensure clients not inlcuded in the [[dhcp_reservation|DHCP Reservation]] list are also categorized for bandwidth limiting. The **Default Class for unlisted MAC / IP's in LAN (br1)** function does this. It lets you set the default Class (bandwidth priority) for MAC or IP addresses on the main LAN for clients not listed in the DHCP Reservation// //table. It will ensure Bandwidth Limiter manages the bandwidth of static clients. These settings apply to the main LAN (bridge 1).
+Clients with a compatible static IP could still gain network access. FreshTomato needs a way to ensure clients not included in the [[dhcp_reservation|DHCP Reservation]] list are also categorized for bandwidth limiting. The **Default Class for unlisted MAC / IP's in LAN (br1)** function does this. It lets you set the default Class (bandwidth priority) for MAC or IP addresses on the main LAN for clients not listed in the DHCP Reservation// //table. It will ensure Bandwidth Limiter manages the bandwidth of static clients. These settings apply to the main LAN (bridge 1).
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-**Enable:** Checking this box enables Bandwidth Limiter.
+**Enable:** checking this enables Bandwidth Limiter.
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-**Download rate:** The minimum download speed the router tries to allocate to a client when other listed clients are also downloading.
+**Download rate:** the minimum download speed allocated to a client when other listed clients are downloading.
-The column total for all clients on the list should not exceed total “Download Bandwidth.” If the amount exceeds “Download Bandwidth”, the entered data will serve no purpose when all network clients are downloading data.
+The column total for all listed clients should not exceed total “Download Bandwidth.” If the amount exceeds “Download Bandwidth”, entered data will serve no purpose when all clients are downloading.
 \\ {{::bandwidth_limiter-default_class_for_lan_br1_-2024.1.png?402}}
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-**Download ceil:** The maximum download speed FreshTomato allocates to the client when more bandwidth is available.
+**Download ceil:** the maximum download speed allocated to the client when more bandwidth is available.
 Such conditions include when other network clients are off, or using less bandwidth than normal. The less bandwidth they use, the more becomes available to allocate to the specified clients. This is especially true for clients categorized with a higher priority.
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-**Upload rate: **The minimum upload speed the router tries to allocate to a client when other listed clients are downloading.
+**Upload rate: **the minimum upload speed allocated to a client when other listed clients are downloading.
 The column total for all clients on the list should not exceed the total “Upload Bandwidth.” If the amount exceeds “Upload Bandwidth”, the entered data will serve no purpose when all network clients are uploading data.
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-**Upload ceiling: **Te maximum download speed FreshTomato allocates to the client when more bandwidth is available.
+**Upload ceiling: **the maximum download speed allocated to the client when more bandwidth is available.
 Such conditions include when other clients are off, or using less bandwidth than normal. The less bandwidth they use, the more becomes available to allocate to specified clients. This is especially true for those clients categorized with higher priority settings.
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-**Priority:** Sets the position of the bandwidth rule, relative to other clients, in the netfilter module.
+**Priority:** sets the position of the bandwidth rule, relative to other clients, in the netfilter module.
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-===== Bandwidth Limiter Notes =====
+===== Bandwidth Limiter Notes and Troubleshooting =====
-  * With Bandwidth Limiter enabled, QoS should be disabled, and vice versa. If both are enabled, they will conflict and neither will work.
+ \\
-  * Bandwidth Limiter won't work if you some IPv6 service types enabled, such as 6in4. They use tunneling protocols, incompatible with Bandwidth Limiter.
-  * Bandwidth Limiter should reboot the WAN interface only when Captive Portal is enabled. However, with releases 2020.8 and earlier, Bandwidth Limiter rebooted the WAN interface even with Captive Portal disabled. The router dropped the Internet connection until the WAN interface was reinitialized and the WAN connection renegotiated. This problem was fixed in release 2022.1.
+  - If Bandwidth Limiter is enabled, QoS should be disabled, and vice\\ versa. If both are enabled, they will conflict and neither will work. \\ \\
+  - Bandwidth Limiter won't work with some IPv6 service types enabled, \\ such as //6in4//. They use tunneling protocols that are incompatible with it. \\ \\
+  - Bandwidth Limiter should reboot the WAN interface only when \\ Captive Portal is enabled. However, with releases 2020.8 and earlier, \\ Bandwidth Limiter rebooted the WAN interface even when Captive Portal \\ was disabled. The router dropped the Internet connection until \\ the WAN interface was reinitialized and the WAN connection renegotiated. \\ This problem was fixed in release 2022.1.
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