- Traffic Shaping Mac Os X
- Traffic Shaping For Macbook
- Traffic Shaping For Mac Os
- Traffic Shaping Virtual Machine
An ISP should treat your traffic transparently and not care about its contents. There are ISPs out there however that will rate-limit (shape) certain traffic like NNTP (usenet) or P2P (torrents). So how do you find out if your ISP is doing this?
Go to Policy & Objects Traffic Shaping Policy and select Create New to create a shaping policy that will set regular traffic to high priority. Under Matching Criteria, set Source, Destination, Service to match your Internet Access policy. Using traffic shaping policies, you can manage bandwidth and prioritize network traffic to reduce the impact of heavy bandwidth usage. You associate a policy with an association type. For example, you can create policies to guarantee and limit bandwidth for users or applications. Go to Policy & Objects Traffic Shaping Policy. Click Create New. Enable Schedule and select the schedule you just created. Set Service to file accessing services, such as FTP and SMB. Set Action to Assign Group, then set Outgoing interface to wan1 and Shaping group to 20. Configure the remaining settings as required.
There’s an application called ShaperProbe that will test this for you. It’s available for Windows, MAC and Linux and it can detect if your ISP is shaping traffic or not. To give it a test run I decided to install it on my Linux machine and check if Ziggo (my ISP) is shaping anything..here’s how to install it on Linux:
First we’ll download the source files, now let’s extract it:
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/3/126368006/311378568.png)
Traffic Shaping Mac Os X
Now open the folder and compile it:
Now let’s run it and see what happens:
Traffic Shaping For Macbook
As you can see my ISP is not shaping anything. Another cool method to test if your ISP is shaping is Glasnost. From their website you can test a number of different applications like bittorrent, NNTP or even Youtube:
Traffic Shaping For Mac Os
Above you see some of the applications that you can test. My ISP isn’t shaping NNTP traffic as you can see below:
Traffic Shaping Virtual Machine
How about your ISP? Is it limiting your traffic?