QOS for SL?

Has anyone ever tried setting up QOS for SL? I am not sure I fully understand QOS but I think it would give priority to taffic from a program that is setup to use it. I understand people using VOIP often have QOS enabled in their routers so give priority to VOIP trafic.

Would it even be worth it to set up QOS for LS?

What settings would I use?

I did, but it was a fairly long time ago, and I don't remember what exact settings I used (plus, LL's ports have changed).

Basically, what I think I did was to prioritize any traffic to any of LL's IPs as higher than, say, BitTorrent traffic. That seemed to do the job, and helped bump up my performance even when my housemates were soaking up the bandwidth. I'm not sure what IP ranges LL is using right now, but you can probably find out by doing a name lookup on various sim servers (ie sim123.agni.lindenlab.com). You might even try running a whois on the IP address returned, which may show you the entire block it belongs to.

As to whether it's worth it? It depends on what kind of traffic you're competing with. In my case, I was sharing a 6.0/768 DSL connection with 6 other people, and a lot of them liked to sit on bittorrent. Bittorrent is notorious for eating up the limited upstream bandwidth that we get from cable and DSL, and that's what QoS tries to help with. If you notice that SL (and, say, web pages) take forever to load whenever someone in your house is doing something like bittorrent, then QoS is for you.

Sorry for picking this thread up, but I suppose it's better than opening a new one.

I work for an ISP and being the SL "addicted" that I become, I'd like to prioritize traffic to SL on our traffic shaper, but I don't want to do it "port based", because it will be rapidly abused by the p2p guys %)

I know I can connect to SL, netstat my connection to see the sim hostname and try a whois database search to find out what is the whole (?) address range ... but it can give me "false" results, because LL can use multiple pools for the sims and not having them all under the same entry on the whois database...

Does LL publish the address range for the sims anywhere ? It'd be a help for some ISPs around the world ...

Best regards,

I don't have time to search the Knowledgebase (I think they're there) but I found this on a quick Google search. Try searching the Knowledgebase tho...

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Simulator_IP_Addresses

Bingo Thx for the fast answer

Regards