In my expirience the best setup is using pipes with a bandwidth of 80% what 
your ISP promisses. The upload pipe may be a bit bigger since upload can be 
controlled 100%. If your using VoIP, you should allocate dedicated  pipes to 
get the best QoS.

The best way to test TCP is downloding from the apache website.


BR
Søren Vanggaard Jensen





>From: Zone AdrenaLan Melbourne <melbourne at zoneadrenalan dot com dot au>
>To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>Subject: [m0n0wall] Traffic shaping incoming data
>Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:32:51 +1000
>
>Hi,
>
>Do you need to setup pipes, queues and rules to shape incoming data on the 
>WAN connection?
>
>Does setting up these rules have any actual effect on the performance of 
>the connection?
>
> >From what I have read here on shaping most people think it has little 
>effect as you can not control
>what is being sent to you from your ISP.  However they all seem to setup 
>incoming shaping rules.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Regards
>Russell
>