introduction Since my last endavour in low latency firewalling, a lot has happend in the linux networking world. New algorithms where developed that reduce manual configuration by a large factor. I use this setup at home to: keep gaming latency low keep voice call’s (teams, slack, discord, teamspeak) latency low even in the event that there is high upload (cloud sync, email with large attachment, video streaming, backup), response times for interactive traffic are low and usable.

Hello interwebs, The past 2 days i’ve been playing with shorewall’s traffic shaping and reading the lartc. Long story short: succes! goal: game with a good ping (latency) for everybody on a lan party (~10 people) problem: when pepole are surfing, gaming becomes impossible due to hig ping bandwith we use a fon hotspot to use internet, wich has limited bandwith (~2,8Mbit if we’re lucky)