Pegasus Mail & Mercury

It seems when Pmail is sending,
it chokes out my VOIP on the uplink.

Are there any third party solutions
to throttle the outgoing traffic
on a per-application basis, or
any registry keys that can do this?

I use Windows 2000 Professional SP4,
and a Vonage Vportal behind a Linksys
BEFSR41 router on a CAT 5 LAN.  I have
the Vportal in a DMZ, to no avail.

It seems Pmail is hogging the entire
bandwidth by default.

I'd like to limit the upload bandwidth
used by Pmail to (Qmax - 128 kbps)
That oughtta do it.  But how???

I've tried both Netlimiter and
TrafficShaperXP, and they offered
settings only in increments of
powers of 10, instead of specific
values.  

You might try using the -z 1024 commandline option to turn on the blocking sockets.  The use of blocking sockets should slow things down.  You can also try setting the priority of the winpm-32.exe process from normal to something less than normal so it gives up more cycles to the higher processes.

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

Why don't you use the QoS setting your Linksys provides ?

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kind regards

tigershark:

Why don't you use the QoS setting your Linksys provides ?

 

Well, because it doesn't [provide].
Even if it DID (no pun intended), I am not looking
for a port-based solution, rather, I am looking for
an application-based load balancing solution. 

But thank you for your comments.

 

I am still struggling with this one.  This is awful! 

This is TERRIBLE! 

 

 

FWIW:

The last two software based throttles I installed
were hard to configure - in fact, the best of the two
limited me to 1.5 Mbps, globally.  I gave up on them.
There ought to  be a way to manipulate the TCP/IP
stack manually, via the registry, in Windows 2000.

The reason I post this here, is because Pegasus is the main
offender, when it comes to bandwidth hogging.
We need to be able to disable blocking calls.
In Pegasus v 2x, this even interfered with Netscape and Mozilla!
We've come a long way since then! 

gyrgrls:

 

Well, because it doesn't [provide].

Well, according to the manual, it does ;-)

I am not looking for a port-based solution 

What's wrong with port-based QoS, just lower the priority of Port 25 for outgoing mail ?

 

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kind regards

Well, because it doesn't [provide].

Well, according to the manual, it does ;-)

I'm not at all bothered with this since I use Mercury/32 for sending/receiving the mail but I've looked through the BEFSR41 manual and I see no way to set the port priorities.  For my own amazement, could you provide a cite? 

Thanks

 

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

Hi Thomas,

Thomas R. Stephenson:

I'm not at all bothered with this since I use Mercury/32 for sending/receiving the mail but I've looked through the BEFSR41 manual and I see no way to set the port priorities.  For my own amazement, could you provide a cite? 

Ok, I'am trying ;-)

1.) I hope we talk about the same manual and router, I use this page http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1122062340941&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

2.) The manual provides on page 30f. the possible settings for QoS, look at Application Priority.

Maybe you can confirm that ?

 

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kind regards

Maybe you can confirm that ?

Yes and no.  ;-) The Linksys model BEFSR41 version 4.0 and later does have the Qos option, the v3.0 and older do not.  Of course you can set the priority of a running application in WinXP to do pretty much the same thing.

 

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team