[160776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: home network monitoring and shaping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Adler)
Tue Feb 12 19:02:08 2013
In-Reply-To: <511ABA76.8040003@mtcc.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:01:55 -0500
From: Eric Adler <eaptech@gmail.com>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm quite happy with what routeros (mikrotik) provides me on my home network.
- Eric
Eric Adler
Broadcast Engineer
On 2/12/13, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
>
> O oracle of nanog: unlike things like rogue processes eating tons of CPU,
> it seems to me that network monitoring is essentially a black art for the
> average schmuck home network operator (of which I count myself). That
> is: if the "network is slow", it's really hard to tell why that might be
> and
> who of the eleventy seven devices on my wifi is sucking the life out of my
> bandwidth. And then even if I get an idea of who the perp is, my
> remediation
> choice seems to be "find that device, smash it with sledge hammer".
>
> It seems that there really ought to be a better way here to manage my
> home network. Like, for example, the ability to get stats from router and
> tell it to shape various devices/flows to play nice. Right now, it seems to
> me that the state of the art is pretty bad -- static-y kinds of setups for
> static-y kinds of flows that people-y kind of users don't understand or
> touch on their home routers.
>
> The ob-nanog is that "my intertoobs r slow" is most likely a call to your
> support desks which is expensive, of course. Is anything happening on
> this front? Is openwrt, for example, paying much attention to this problem?
>
> Mike
>
>
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