How to controll one router with another? (sorry don't know how to word this)

ShadowTerra

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Hi so since my house is weirdly built we have 2 routers (one is our main modem) I was wandering since the modem we have cannot use QoS software if i could make it like a connector where when you connect to the modem you really are just connecting to the router which would controll the devices?
 
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It depends what you goal is. If you were to run QoS WITHIN your house you might get the router to control it..hard to say it really depends on the router and its abilities. Still QoS only matters when you have a bottleneck. Inside your house there is so much capacity that the router seldom would need to even decide who goes first. It is not going to delay traffic if there is no need.

If you are talking internet then only the device connected to the line can do any form of QoS. For most routers you are limited to controlling data being SENT..ie upload. You seldom overload your upload link. Most issues are in the traffic coming to your house ie download. There is only limited things you can do the ISP is in full control and...
It depends what you goal is. If you were to run QoS WITHIN your house you might get the router to control it..hard to say it really depends on the router and its abilities. Still QoS only matters when you have a bottleneck. Inside your house there is so much capacity that the router seldom would need to even decide who goes first. It is not going to delay traffic if there is no need.

If you are talking internet then only the device connected to the line can do any form of QoS. For most routers you are limited to controlling data being SENT..ie upload. You seldom overload your upload link. Most issues are in the traffic coming to your house ie download. There is only limited things you can do the ISP is in full control and they could care less about QoS. They will randomly drop whatever data will not fit at a given point in time. Not much your router can do it can't magically recreate data that the ISP discards.
 
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