User Guide
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This section of the User Guide contains a sampling of tips, based on FAQs (frequently asked
questions). For our full
Support Archive
, please go to our NetEqualizer News blog site. You
can also review our
Advanced Tuning
library, recommended for NetEqualizer power users.
1)
How to Name your NetEqualizers
2)
How to Enable Speed Tests
3)
Check your Maximum Bandwidth with our Speed Log Tool
4)
How to Test Bandwidth Limiting Rules
5)
How to Tune Bandwidth Limit Precision
6)
How to Monitor Bandwidth Hogs
How to Name Your NetEqualizers
(
back
)
If you have more than one NetEqualizer, you may want to give each an individualized name,
in order to keep them straight while you are working with them. The NAME parameter is
displayed prominently on the Dashboard, so that you can easily tell which NetEqualizer you
are administering.
From the Maintenance and Reference menu,
Click on ->
Maintenance
->
[
Edit
Any Text File
].
To open the config file, type in:
/etc/arbdefault.conf
Go to the "NAME=" parameter line in the file and change whatever is listed after the equal
sign to what you want to call this NetEqualizer. For example, if you decided to name by
location, you might have a
NAME=BoulderNetEQ
.
Click on ->
[
Post Changes
]
to save or
Click on ->
[
Reset
]
to cancel your changes.
How to Enable Speed Tests
(
back
)
In order to ensure that speed test sites are not equalized, you can give them priority
treatment on your network. This is done through setting up each speed test site as
Priority
Traffic
.
To set up Priority Traffic:
From the Setup and Configuration Menu,
Click on ->
Manage Priority
->
[
Manage Traffic with Priority over Equalizing
]
Check your Maximum Bandwidth with our Speed Log Tool
(
back
)
If you want to verify that you are getting the bandwidth expected from your provider, you
can run these commands. This is useful during troubleshooting, if you feel that you are
hitting RATIO too soon or not hitting RATIO often enough. It could be that you are not
