Quick Start Guide
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Bandwidth Up and Bandwidth Down
Once your settings are saved, as you have changed Bandwidth Up and Bandwidth Down, you will be prompted to
stop and then restart the NetEqualizer process to apply your changes (see screen below).
To stop and then restart Equalizing,
Click on ->
[
Maintenance
].
Then
click on ->
[
Start/Stop Equalizing
]
to stop and then
restart Equalizing,
Once complete, to validate your changes are
in place,
Click on ->
Manage Equalizing
->
[
View Parameters
]
and review the settings
for each parameter
.
Step #3B (recommended): Additional Equalizing Parameters
You may also need to tune your
Penalty Unit
and
Connection Tracking Table Size
to optimize for your network pipe.
While we include
Dynamic Hogmin
here for completeness, if you are interested in setting this, please see
our full
User Guide
.
After you change these settings,
Click on ->
[
Modify
]
to save changes or
Click on ->
[
Reset
]
to discard
changes.
Additional Equalizing Parameters
Parameter
Unit
Default
Value
What you can set to…
Tips
Moving Average
(MOVING_AVG)
Number of
Seconds
8
Recommend you do not change from
Default value.
Used to determine network hogs. Keeps
NetEqualizer from penalizing short bursts
of activity.
Maximum Penalty
(MAX_PENALTY)
Hundredths of
seconds
140
Rarely changed from Default value.
Should be greater than PENALTY UNIT
and less than 200.
Penalty Unit
(PENALTY_UNIT)
Hundredths of
seconds
2
For networks of size:
>= 10Mbps to < 50Mbps 2 - 3
>= 50 Mbps 1
The faster the trunk the less radical the
PENALTY should be and Penalty Unit will
adjust that. For example, 10 would delay all
packets by 1/10 of a second when a
penalty is in effect.
Connection
Tracking Table Size
(BRAIN_SIZE)
Number of
Connections (IP
pairs) to track in
one (1) second.
10000
For networks of size:
< 100Mbps 20000
>= 100Mbps & < 1Gbps 30000
>= 1Gbps 40000
How many connections (IP pairs) to keep
track of at one time during any given
second.
Penalty Time
(ANCIENT)
Seconds
20
Rarely changed from Default value.
Should not need to change.
How long to keep a penalty in effect.
Inactive Tics
(INACTIVE_TICS)
Hundredths of
seconds
200
Rarely changed from Default value.
100-800
1 (100) to 8 (800) seconds. Time
something tracked in Connection Tracking
Table without activity.
Dynamic Hogmin
(DYNAMIC_HMIN)
On/Off
OFF
ON or OFF. Use this to punish P2P
users more as they utilize more
bandwidth. Read more in
Smarter
P2P Blocking
.
Not part of basic set-up. See
User Guide
for instructions for use.
When ON,
bandwidth is allocated based on the
number of connections used by a given IP.
Dynamic Hogmin
Connections
(DHMIN_CONN)
Number of
Connections (IP
pairs) per user.
10
Number of reasonable connections
there are per user. Used in
conjunction with Dynamic Hogmin.
Value is ignored unless Dynamic
Hogmin=ON.
Not part of basic set-up. See
User Guide
for instructions for use.
Defines the level
where P2P users are restricted more
aggressively when the network is under
load.
