On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 19:15 +1000, Richard Edmands wrote:
> In my environment we've got a fair chunk of torrent usage happening (+
> gaming) and with fq_codel giving the advantage to whichever individual
> could open up as many connections as possible the entire situation
> imploded very quickly.
> 
> So to balance this out I used htb to implement the IP part of this
> (actually not really, i made groups of ip's which belonged to
> individuals) and stuck fq_codel on top of the divided setup.
> 
> With this system what now happens is each IP now gets equal
> utilization of the link (actually, i'm a lazy hack. I only implemented
> the uplink section) which prevents the advantage of opening up as many
> connections as possible. 
> Now when an individual decides to go nuts, they're limited to what is
> available to them without harming everyone else, without compromising
> maximum possible speed.
> 
> 
> I have had this running in my environment for the past month and WOW.

I did something similar as well. You can find the script and results
below. Let me know if you find any bugs.

http://git.coverfire.com/?p=linux-qos-scripts.git;a=blob;f=src-3tos.sh;hb=HEAD

http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2013/01/01/improving-my-home-internet-performance/