QoS setup for a specific game or PC

MustangF16

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I have a 2MB internet , and i share it with my brother , i have a problem , when my brother start watching youtube or loads a page while iam playing , my ping shoots from 90 to 500 , so i guess the best way to fix it is by setting up QoS for the games i play or my PC i game on.

So basically i want to prioritize a specific game but i tried to do it myself , but my router wants me to fill too many boxes that i dont know what hey mean

My router is ZTE : ZXHN H108N , and here's a picture of the QoS setup its really complicated :

http://i.imgur.com/OpeoyPG.png

if someone could tell me what should i fill that will be great ...

Thanks

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Update ; I tried to set it up , but it didnt work (Iam currently using wireless connection) , but it didnt work ...
http://i.imgur.com/vy6smOR.png
 
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If you want to see a router that can do what you want look at the documentation for tplink or asus. Both those have the ability to limit traffic inbound to fixed rates. Not all of their routers in their product line can do it but most can, it more that you see what you are looking for so you know what routers to pick.

Finding the manual for that router is close to impossible the ones online do not match the screen shots you provide.

Still it likely does not matter. QoS is mostly smoke and mirrors, all those option related to dscp etc etc are all removed as soon as the data hits the ISP.

The vast majority of routers can only affect traffic being SENT to the ISP. In almost all cases the problem is data being RECEIVED from the ISP. In most cases there is little you can do to control traffic coming into the router.

So first your router needs to be able to put hard limits on traffic in bits/sec. None of this high/medium/low garbage. Maybe it can do that in the CAR screen but I suspect not.

In theory you can control the inbound traffic by restricting the outbound. In the simple case if you were to set the outbound to zero bits/sec for everyone else but your game machine nobody could request any data and therefore the download path would be available to only your game. It is tricky to try to pick a number that is more than zero but is still low enough to prevent impact to the game. In most cases the users you are trying to restrict will get almost unusable internet or they will not be limited enough.

Some routers have the ability set the inbound rates. This of course is AFTER the ISP has already sent you the data so you really can't prioritize data since the ISP has already discarded what they were and you can't get it back. In this case you try to restrict the other users even more to cause errors and hope they slow down their requests. It tends to be easier to guess a number that messing with the inbound side but it still does not work for all application... youtube it does work well to restrict.

I strongly suspect your router can not limit to a fixed rate. If it does it likely can only do it outbound since there are only a small number of routers that can limit it inbound.

With only 2m to start with it is going to be practically impossible to do this....other than in effect completely blocking the other users so your game can use all the bandwidth.
 

MustangF16

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I have found out that i only need 50kb/s to play on 90 ping and use voip , it wont lag , so i was thinking if there is anyway to reserve 50kb for my PC , i dont want anyone to use that amount, my brother would still have about 175kb , and he can watch 360p videos continuously without stopping to load
 

MustangF16

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Why its shouldn't work ? it is written that the router got that feature , so it should work without any problems

 
If you want to see a router that can do what you want look at the documentation for tplink or asus. Both those have the ability to limit traffic inbound to fixed rates. Not all of their routers in their product line can do it but most can, it more that you see what you are looking for so you know what routers to pick.

 
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