[Asterisk-Users] Bandwidth control on a home office network

[Roger Hanson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Holt" <adamholt at mac.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>



> Hi,
>
> I have a Grandstream ATA today connected to my 750k broadband 
> connection via an older router / firewall that doesn't have any QoS / 
> ToS capability.  It works fine apart from the obvious problem of when 
> large emails come in or somebody else on the network starts d/l-ing 
> something big off the web.
>
> I'm wondering whether to swap the router for a Cisco in order to 
> introduce some local bandwidth control.
>
> Alternatively I was wondering if I picked up a Cisco 7960 handset 
> instead - is the 2nd ethernet port routed through the device, or does 
> it just act as an Ethernet repeater, i.e. if I arranged the handset in 
> the network as below would I get bandwidth prioritisation for the 
> 7960?
>
> [CABLE MODEM]------[7960]-------[FW / ROUTER / HUB]--------[REST OF MY 
> NETWORK]
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> BR /adam.



I use IPCOP - it's another open source project.  It does traffic 
shaping, routing, firewalling, DMZ, etc.  It's free and runs on an old 
PC (I use Pentium 200MHZ w/128MB RAM - but I need it that fast because 
it's also a content filter for my home network/kids.

www.ipcop.org

Did I mention, it's free?

Roger