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I'm not talking about gaining faster internet speeds, but more of a fair distribution of available bandwidth between all applications that request a network connection. On a household laptop, not a production server. As of right now, whenever I try to watch a movie or download some updates, it takes up all the bandwidth to itself and I can't browse web while it does that. I need a Linux built-in solution, without installing an additional application. Maybe fine tuning timeouts and whatnot. I'm guessing a lot of this can be done with sysctl , but I have no idea what set of parameters would yield the best result. The bandwidth I'm talking about is within 1-12 Mbit/s

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Under Ubuntu, I had some success with wondershaper. Although it lacks fine grained control, it should do more or less what you are looking for. From the man page:

This manual page documents briefly the wondershaper script. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original script does not have a manual page. wondershaper is a traffic shaping script that provides low latency, prioritizes bulk transfers below normal web traffic, prioritizes interactive shells above normal web traffic, and attempts to prevent upload and download traffic from affecting each other's ack packets. Put simply, the wondershaper makes your internet connection more "responsive"

Especially if you're not too much into tuning, this will probably give you a workable set-up.

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  • Actually, I like tuning a lot. That's how I ended up having a Linux-powered laptop =) Commented Jul 28, 2020 at 13:21
  • wondershaper has a lot of optional configurations available and is simply a shell script setting up tc rules. Also be sure to use the one available on github (currently 1.4.1) not for example the original one still shipped by Debian, and really not up to date. Commented Jul 28, 2020 at 15:53
  • To add to the above, you should read (after installing) the files in /usr/share/doc/wondershaper/README.gz and /usr/share/doc/wondershaper/README.Debian.gz. There's some helpful information in there. Commented Jul 28, 2020 at 16:06

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