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Recently a friend of mine decided to go to China for a spell and I gave him free access to my FTP Server. I understand that he gets bored from time to time so I’m more then happy to share my bandwidth and server. The problem so far has been that his downloading is capping my network upload speed effectively bringing my network to a halt. This is where QOS comes in to play.

Now I know that good FTP servers have a bandwidth limiting feature already built in to them. Well I don’t have one of those. I’m using a Thecus N4100 with FTP support enabled. The Thecus is a NAS server that’s just hanging out on my network. I’m lucky that I even get FTP support so I can’t complain to much. I guess I could always setup FTP on my Web server and just mount the remote folders on the network but I digress.

QOS stands for Quality of Service and is a resource control mechanism. This allows for greater control of traffic and packet shaping. I should now be able to limit FTP transfers to only 80% of my total upload and leave the rest for web transactions.

There is plenty of information on the net if you Google “QOS.” For those with IPcop you can pick up the plugin over at mhaddons. You’ll also need the plugin for Layer7. This is also at mhaddons. When installing don’t forget to install layer7 first.

There is a great guide for setting up QOS on IPcop here. It’s incredibly helpful.

I’ll have to see how this works out and if I can notice an increase in performance on my end while my friend is downloading.

One of my life goals has been to run a marathon. I’ve wanted to do this since I was 15 and I’m pushing a decade since then but it still hasn’t happened. I would love to say I’ll do this and just do it. However it’s a huge undertaking that will alter my life. Not to mention the time and dedication that it will take.

If I decide to go ahead with this then I will start a supplemental training blog to post updates on how training is going and races. Geoff, thanks again for the inspiration. You have been a true mentor.

There are many decisions that have to be made before I decide yes or no on this but I’m really curious to get feedback on this. Please let me know what you think.

There are no specs on it as it does not exists but the basic concept is two pieces of glass that can change state between solid and transparent. This is right out of Minority Report. Check out the link for Pics.

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