[Cake] Getting Cake to work better with Steam and similar applications

[Dendari Marini]

Hello, thanks for your reply.

Looks like most of your options are okay, including the correct “dual”
> modes and “ingress” mode in the right place.  However, I think you need to
> adjust your bandwidth and overhead settings, otherwise Cake isn’t reliably
> in control of the bottleneck queues.  Try these to begin with:
>
> … bandwidth 850Kbit conservative dual-srchost nat
>
> … bandwidth 15Mbit conservative dual-dsthost nat ingress
>
> That should give you correct operation, and you can fine-tune from there.


Just did quick test with your settings. First thing I noticed is my final
download bandwidth is about 12Mbps, Steam on PC1 downloads at 1.4-1.5MB/s
while downloading a file on PC2 seems to max out at ~250KB/s. From my
understanding I should see each PC download at ~700KB/s, or am I mistaken?

On 20 April 2017 at 17:32, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 20 Apr, 2017, at 18:23, Dendari Marini <dendari92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Could you post the output of calling “tc -s qdisc” here on the list
> please? That should allow to figure out what you actually told cake to do ;0
>
> > qdisc cake 8001: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 bandwidth 900Kbit diffserv3
> dual-srchost nat rtt 100.0ms raw
>
> > qdisc cake 8002: dev ifb4eth0 root refcnt 2 bandwidth 16Mbit diffserv3
> dual-dsthost nat ingress rtt 100.0ms raw
>
> Looks like most of your options are okay, including the correct “dual”
> modes and “ingress” mode in the right place.  However, I think you need to
> adjust your bandwidth and overhead settings, otherwise Cake isn’t reliably
> in control of the bottleneck queues.  Try these to begin with:
>
> … bandwidth 850Kbit conservative dual-srchost nat
>
> … bandwidth 15Mbit conservative dual-dsthost nat ingress
>
> That should give you correct operation, and you can fine-tune from there.
>
>  - Jonathan Morton
>
>
>
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