Prioritizing Game Traffic in an Apartment

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Supadoopa

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Hi there,

I am currently in college and my roommate LOVES to stream Netflix and Hulu. I, however, love playing online games such as World of Tanks. Whenever he is watching Netflix, I experience periodic lag spikes (999ms ping) lasting ~10 seconds, which means life or death in the game I'm playing. I own a Medialink router, and was wondering if there is a way to 'prioritize' traffic recognized as gaming over Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, etc?

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SupaDoopa
 
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Nope there is not way to dynamical make this work. You are very lucky you can limit download speeds to a fixed value it is not a common feature.

What you want to do is put in a rule that matches all ip except yours and put in a download limit of say 1500 or maybe even 1200. This will leave 1500 or 800 for your machine. You are going to have to play around with the number. Most games use only about 500k or less. When you only have 2m to start with you can't just put in a big number and not worry.

You could turn the rule on and off manually I guess

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Supadoopa

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Reading reviews, it seems my router DOES have QoS, but it is mentioned only once or twice in reviews OR the user manual, with no real telling signs (using ctrl+f). Here's a screenshot of the closest thing I can find.

http://i.imgur.com/129QYVw.png

Problem is, I only want to limit bandwidth to the other PC(s) when MINE is trying to use bandwidth. Is that possible?
 
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Nope there is not way to dynamical make this work. You are very lucky you can limit download speeds to a fixed value it is not a common feature.

What you want to do is put in a rule that matches all ip except yours and put in a download limit of say 1500 or maybe even 1200. This will leave 1500 or 800 for your machine. You are going to have to play around with the number. Most games use only about 500k or less. When you only have 2m to start with you can't just put in a big number and not worry.

You could turn the rule on and off manually I guess

 
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Supadoopa

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Thanks, my router only cost like $30 though... its called Amazon and it works wonders!
 
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