I’d just like to add some other cool QoS-projects to the discussion so that maybe more people can find a project that suits their own needs. I’ve always been fo

I’d just like to add some other cool QoS-projects to the discussion so that maybe more people can find a project that suits their own needs. I’ve always been fond of QoS, mainly because it was a necessity with five family members and just one measly DSL-connection, second because it’s just neat to use QoS to prevent people from breaking your connection and making everything much more effective. 1. It seems like the first QoS-solution I ever used is still being actively developed. It’s called Mastershaper and you can find it here: https://oss.netshadow.net/redmine/projects/mastershaper https://oss.netshadow.net/redmine/projects/mastershaper Though it seems like the maintainer is doing some heavy work right now so there is no usable version at the moment. In my old days Mastershaper was programmed in PHP and it either worked with iptables as filter or with the faster tc-filters. It had a nice GUI and also some flow analysis through a graph. It was made to run under Debian and the like. 2. The other project I would like to mention is a router firmware called Tomato. The original website might be still available but the original author has ceased development for several years now. It’s only being developed by its community now. You can find the forum here: http://linksysinfo.org/index.php?forums/tomato-firmware.33/ http://linksysinfo.org/index.php?forums/tomato-firmware.33/ This firmware can be run on several open commercial home-routers (MIPSR1, MIPSR2, ARM), one of them being the old and very popular WRT54GL. But of course it also runs on more recent models. Tomato has several flavours. Toastman’s Tomato is known for its well implemented QoS and stability. You can find it here: http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/toastman-mips-and-arm-releases.36106/ http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/toastman-mips-a... Tomato probably has one of the most easily usable QoS-systems there is. Once installed, all you need to do is measure your line speed throughout the day, deduce a safety margin of about 15-30% to start with, enter your upstream and downstream values into the GUI, hit “Save” and you are running a pretty decently pre-configured QoS-system. It even supports overhead calculations for ADSL. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with IPv6, yet, and also uses the old netfilter L7-filters, which are pretty outdated. A switch to nDPI hasn’t been undertaken, yet. If you think about using Tomato with QoS, keep in mind that QoS needs a lot of CPU power, so it’s important to know your line speed and buy accordingly. 3. Another firmware that probably has well-made QoS is Gargoyle: https://www.gargoyle-router.com/ https://www.gargoyle-router.com/ I haven’t been using it but maybe it’s worth a look.