QoS

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What is QoS

Qos (Quality of Service) is the means of shaping traffic to give certain traffic priority above other. In most cases bulk traffic like FTP or any other bandwidth consuming transfer protocols gets the lowest priority. By doing this we enable latency dependent protocols like ssh, irc, and gaming to work like it should.

CTWUG uses a combination of WMM, DSCP marks, and queues to prioritise traffic. Traffic is divided into 3 groups namely Bulk, Interactive and Realtime. Bulk traffic has the lowest priority on the network and like its name suggest all bulk traffic goes into this group. Interactive traffic has a high priority, this group is for protocols that require low latency and sometimes higher bandwidth, traffic like games and irc will go into this group. The last group is Realtime, this group is more for low latency dependant traffic like VOIP and has the highest priority.

Load WMS Script

• 1. Set DNS on your routerboard to 172.18.1.1, and also allow remote requests.
• 2. Open a new terminal and run the following command:

        /tool fetch url=http://wms.ctwug.za.net/join.rsc; /import join.rsc