Speeding Up Upstream speed for UDP

[MontysNotebook]

Is it possible to tweak UDP upstream speed for a cable modem? I am wondering because I wish to have a minor gaming server.

 

[MontysNotebook]

Any body?

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

Spend more money for premium service with faster upstream speeds.

I think the lack of responses means that nobody has a silver bullet for this issue.

 

[gaidin123]

Well, if you know linux you can "easily" set up a linux router and run the iproute2 tools and do traffic shaping on your cable modem's interface. It would be pretty trivial to limit everything at X speed (which is say 10% less than your sustained measured upstream) and then write a rule to filter UDP and give it 100% of your available bandwidth and give it a higher priority.

Check out the linux advanced routing howto at http://www.lartc.org. It's honestly pretty easy to do now if you have some knowledge of linux and a strange urge to monitor your traffic levels at home.

Gaidin

Edit: I know I pimp this solution out all the time but it has pretty much been a life saver for my home network for years now. Another option to try would be netlimiter at http://www.netlimiter.com. It's a shareware Windows app that would let you prioritize your game server over other processes but it won't let you control the rest of the traffic on your LAN.

 

[cmetz]

MontysNotebook, if you want to prioritize UDP over other traffic and control better the bandwidth you have, see gaidin123's post. If you want more bandwidth, you have to pay for it. Cable modem uncapping hacks don't work on a properly configured cable system, and since there's only a handful of cable ISPs and there was a lot of press over the hacks, odds are yours is properly configured... at least in this one small respect