1. take in count your real wan available bandwidth for queuing to work perfectly you have to use only 80-90% of real bandwidth as total queue

2. you have to queue all the traffic incoming and outgoing to internet without leaks

3. try with a simpler configuration, i think that configa can be done with only one simple queue

4. check via winbox simple queue statistics to see if your traffic is being queued, in contrast to internet interface counter have to be similar if all is working correct

Traffic Shaping Objectives

Traffic shaping operates by measuring and queuing IP packets with respect to a number of
configurable parameters. The objectives are:
• Applying bandwidth limits and queuing packets that exceed configured limits, then sending
them later when bandwidth demands are lower.
• Dropping packets if packet buffers are full. The packets to be dropped should be chosen from
those that are responsible for the congestion.
• Prioritizing traffic according to administrator decisions. If traffic with a high priority increases
while a communication line is full, traffic with a low priority can be temporarily limited to
make room for the higher priority traffic.
• Providing bandwidth guarantees. This is typically accomplished by treating a certain amount
of traffic (the guaranteed amount) as high priority. The traffic that is in excess of the
guarantee then has the same priority as other traffic, competing with all the other
non-prioritized traffic.
Traffic shaping does not typically work by queuing up immense amounts of data and then
sorting out the prioritized traffic to send before sending non-prioritized traffic. Instead, the
amount of prioritized traffic is measured and the non-prioritized traffic is limited dynamically so
that it will not interfere with the throughput of prioritized traffic.


Limits should not be more than the Available Bandwidth
If queue limits are set higher than the available bandwidth, the queue will not know when the
physical connection has reached its capacity. If the connection is 500 Kbps but the total queue
limit is set to 600 Kbps, the queue will believe that it is not full and it will not throttle lower
priorities.

Limits should be less than Available Bandwidth
queue limits should be below the network bandwidth. A recommended value is to make
the queue limit 80-90% of the physical limit. The need for this difference becomes less with increasing
bandwidth since represents an increasingly larger piece of the total.
The reason for the lower pipe limit is For outbound
connections where packets leave the router, there is always the possibility that
might slightly overload the connection because of the software delays involved in
deciding to send packets and the packets actually being dispatched from buffers.
For inbound connections, there is less control over what is arriving and what has to be processed
by the traffic shaping system and it is therefore more important to set pipe limits slightly
below the real connection limit to account for the time needed for queuing to adapt to
changing conditions.

Watching for Leaks
When setting out to protect and shape a network bottleneck, make sure that all traffic passing
through that bottleneck passes through the defined queues.
If there is traffic going through the Internet connection that the queues do not know about,
queuing cannot know when the Internet connection becomes full.
The problems resulting from leaks are exactly the same as in the cases described above. Traffic
"leaking" through without being measured by pipes will have the same effect as bandwidth
consumed by parties outside of administrator control but sharing the same connection.

i was using pcq for 2 years (pcq-rate=0) until i found out that if a user starts an upload he is taking all the bandwidth and users that are downloading are starving. test it for your self.

my setup for adsl line was:

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/queue simple
add max-limit=768k/8M name=main queue=pcq-upload-default/pcq-download-default target=192.168.88.0/24 total-queue=default

test method:
i put my iphone to upload to icloud a big video so it was taking almost all 768k bandwidth for a long time. you can use any service to upload like dropbox,google drive etc
after that my pc that i was using to playing internet radio starts making pauses and web pages open really slow. if i start a download the speed was under 100kb/s and not 800kb/s.
you can observe in winbox that upload is fully uploading and downloading is starving

one solution for this it was to limit upload per connection (pcq-rate=300k) but with this solution max upload is always 300k per device even nobody is uploading. but that gave space for upload and download simultaneously.

Sorry to wake this Thread up, but how did you get such a nice graph?

I am really struggling to find the right tool..

Could you please point me to the right direction?

Benjamin