Router increases internet speed?

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z_man22

z_man22

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So next year im moving to a house for college it will have 6 residents all using internet, but im the only one who games, what would be an ideal router to fit our needs and notice no lag while gaming?
 
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Feldmarschall

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IF you can afford, this one is your choice. http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN66U/

It has bandwith limit according to IP/MAC, priority settings and everything else.
 
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Be aware applying QoS on a home router is mostly smoke and mirrors. The vast majority are only controlling UPLOAD traffic. This is seldom the bottleneck. It is almost always download traffic that maxes out. The ones that allow you to put in fix bandwidth limits (like the asus mentioned) do this AFTER the traffic is already received. So you toss the traffic away after it has already done the damage. The only way to make this work is to severely limit all but the preferred traffic. So if you had a 10m connection and you wanted to guarantee 2m to your gaming machine you would have to limit all other traffic to 5m or maybe even less depends on the application. This is all based on a error recovery method in tcp which is designed to try to force as much traffic as possible. This means that even if you are not using the game machine all the other users are still limited to 5m. On top of this it only works for TCP. UDP traffic ignores it and keeps transmitting so now all you did way piss off the person using the UDP and you did not actually limit your real utilization. Also bit torrent has so many session open at once dropping packet on one will just allow another to speed up. From the LAN point of view you are limiting traffic but from the internet you are not actually controlling the utilization.

Only the ISP can truly do this. If they do not know which traffic is important they will just randomly drop it before they send it to you. No matter how hard you try you cannot UNDROP that data.
 
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