Which IP address is it asking for?

[snowweb]

In the options of NetWatcher, it asks for a comma separated list of IP addresses, but I'm not sure whether this list should be a list of other devices addresses or addresses of the machine that it's running on?

I use DHCP on the network, so either way, I think this might be a bit troublesome. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for the pluggin though. If I can get it to work it will be great! I'm using it on Linux and the installation went without a hitch.

[rikpg]

It's a list of the other devices addresses: the target devices that you wish to check whether they're on or off-line.

The list is static, it assumes that you're able know in advance a bunch of ip-addr to be checked. A complete scan that targets a whole range of ip-addresses (and finds out your own) can be implemented and was in mind from the beginning, just let me know a possible usage example and I'll write the code.

Glad you liked it, thanks for the feedback!

[snowweb]

Hi Riccardo,

Thanks for your reply and dedication to this plug-in.

The scenario that I'm trying to address by using your plug-in is like this... I have a 384Kbps ADSL connection (I live in the Philippines where connections speeds are low and costly) and we share this connection via a Wifi and ethernet router, where the devices are connected using DHCP, among the other household members.

When I'm downloading, often the others find their connections unusable because I'm hogging all the bandwidth. I'm happy to reduce my download speeds temporarily at those times, but can't really determine when it's safe to revert back to unlimited download speeds again, so would like an automated solution.

Also, it would be great if it could also help when I'm downloading something via HTTP (like watching a video in a browser on the same machine or just browsing. It would be great if it could reduce the maximum allowable speed for Deluge then too, to make it easier to continue browsing.

Ideally, I'd like the plug-in to determine not whether others are connected to the network, but whether they are downloading. Especially if they are trying to watch a video or download a file, I would like the plugin to automatically reduce my maximum allowable speed in Deluge to a pre-determined level (which I can set in an option) until the ADSL connection is less congested.

I'm not sure how you might accomplish that though? I'm wondering if pinging a known IP address on the Internet and measuring the response time/latency might be an acceptable way? Perhaps the IP address / or hostname to ping, could be configurable in the options too and the latency thresh-hold could also be configurable?

When the latency thresh-hold is exceeded, perhaps it should reduce the maximum allowable speed to the pre-determined value for a specified amount of time, before retesting.

The important thing to note is that it should not be monitoring the congestion on the local network, because the LAN never gets congested with Internet traffic since the LAN is quite fast in comparison to the Internet connection. It's really the Internet connection that it somehow needs to monitor for congestion.

Not really sure how programmable this is! But good luck with it if you decide to give it a go. I'd love to donate to help you along, but unfortunately, I'm working a big project myself and am not yet making enough income to keep me afloat at the moment.

Many thanks,

Peter

On 02/08/2013 04:24 PM, Riccardo Poggi wrote:

It's a list of the other devices addresses: the target devices that you wish to check whether they're on or off-line.

The list is static, it assumes that you're able know in advance a bunch of ip-addr to be checked. A complete scan that targets a whole range of ip-addresses (and finds out your own) can be implemented and was in mind from the beginning, just let me know a possible usage example and I'll write the code.

Glad you liked it, thanks for the feedback!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rikpg/NetWatcher/issues/1#issuecomment-13281031.

[rikpg]

Hi Peter, you really took the time to explain things, I appreciate it. Can I ask you to copy and paste your comment as a new issue so that I'll tag it as a feature request and keep things in order by closing this one and not going off topic. It'll be very cool of you!

In the meantime if you like, you can check the develop branch where I impletemented a complete scan so that one doesn't need to know in advance anything. If you'll test it and it works I'll merge it into master. About the other features I'll explain once we move in the new issue, anyway the short story is that looking at how much band is being used is a nearly impossible thing to achieve and it would just take an awful amount of work: it's a complicated topic, the band limit, insted, can be done and I already put down a mock interface. If you have trouble installing from the develop branch just let me know (in the new issue).

Thanks Rik