Hello, I'm looking for an application similar to that limiter mainly though I need the application priority section of the application.
I'm looking for something with a gooey I have gone around the internet to try some other options and they don't really work too well or they are just firewalls that just completely ignore the priority section that I actually need.
My bandwidth upload rates and download rates are pretty low it's the only ISP in the area so I have no ability to change it.
I was wondering if anybody here knew of an option that yes has a GUI. And yes I do need a GUI. Command line is far too inefficient for the little time I have.
Just the PC itself. I tried it with routers and it does not work efficiently. Voice calls often drop unless it's at the application level on the machine.
25Mbits down 2 up on a good day but its not stable at that sadly most of the time it's less mind you i'm paying for 100 down an up. but ya bad isp but the only one.
I,m a little confused and surprised as you are running garuda, garuda does not do any background tasks on the internet unless started? Qos is not normally required.
if you say calls are being dropped, i would check your network traffic and see what is causing it?
It comes down to apps such as discord or team speak, zoom or anything of that nature, not taking priority over, say when a browser is open or running another application that is using data as well.
The application netlimiter I used for Windows or I think it was called Network conditioner for Mac OS.
I would give applications like that the highest priority and everything else basically normal to low depending on what it was.
Basically when when speaking the voice goes robotic on their end. Or can not I hear me at all. But when using software like that while it does happen every once in a great while if uploading something at the same time other than that it works generally flawlessly.
Since I've been slowly migrating over to Linux again I was hoping there be a new application for it but it's looking like not much has changed. But that's fine as well if necessary it'll just be the mac's for work.
I think for a whole home solution i would try pfsense if you have spare hardware as it has a very good Qos/ limiters wizards forjust the things that you require.
It would be nice if it worked well enough but it just doesn't quite come up to snuff. I did test it a while back when I had my old PC still for it. But it did not alleviate the issue. Personally I don't really understand why I don't understand why I can't fix it on the router level either.
But I just blame bad packet priority with the apps themselves. Haha
But, Thank you very much for all your help!
I do honestly appreciate it. I get about 10 hours a week of "free" time so I don't really get a lot of time to spend on the issues.
Give the latest version ago if you get chance was using it last week at a lan with 15 people and only a connection speed of 16 down and 1.5 up. And all seemed good
I know that my solution is not garuda related however I had similar issues with my network.
I have 50Mbps down / 5Mbps up. It is a solid connection. I bought an asus router (RT-AC68U) that is compatible with AsusMerlin. The QOS is fantastic! There are over 25 device attached and no problems. We can use 2 concurrent google DUO's and watch a 4k movie on Disney+, while my son watched netflix in the other room.
They have a great community forum, with lots of people helping. Unfortunately it is not as nice as garuda's forum that uses discorse.
EDIT: I also serve some web pages and email to about 10 people on this connection.
I agree with waeking, your best bet it to configure in the admin portal for your router. Most modern routers include some basic settings for QoS configuration, and it'll be a web-based GUI so perfect for your requirement. An added benefit is your QoS settings will not be tied in down by your computer--any connected device will use the settings you choose.
i thank you both for that option but they don't work. I do have a asus router with merlin installed. And its set up correctly but, It's basically happening on the machine side when any upload of any data occurs. This took me about a year to diagnose on the windows/OSX to get somewhat stable side so I'm willing to wait for a client side solution to one day pop up even if its paid.
Again thank you for the suggestions!
You should ask more about QOS on the asus merlin firmware forum. Use FlexQOS! and set your up and down manually with about 10% less than your max. Then run a few speed tests and adjust accordingly.
