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I have a very basic setup which follow the following diagram -

[ISP] === [Linux Home Router] ==== [Client1 .. n]

Internet sharing is working without any problem. But the main issue is that if any client starts download other client experience serious network slow down.

So I want to distribute the internet bandwidth among the clients equally which guarantees a minimum of 160Kb upto 1Mbit.

I tried to change the queue in the iptables but I think I am missing something there as it does not work.

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    Jun 15, 2015 at 11:01
  • "So I want to distribute the internet bandwidth among the clients equally which guarantees a minimum of 160Kb upto 1Mbit." That assumes that what needs to be shared is bandwidth. But people care an awful lot about latency too. A "perfectly fair" distribution of bandwidth might be perfectly fair to the people using torrenting downloaders, but a person trying to play games will be awfully unhappy.
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    Jun 15, 2015 at 11:03

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I think you will need traffic control instead of IPTables rules. There is a manual for the 'tc' program:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/

And a simple tutorial for its usage:

http://chsoft.biz/lartc/tc_tutorial.html

Following these, you can create a simple rule to distribute the traffic equally.

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