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Alec Bramlett

Alec Bramlett

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I have been trying to adjust my network priority levels on my router, and I am quite puzzled on how to do it. I can get to the QoS settings, but thats it. I took these two screenshots for understanding. I would like more priority for steam and netflix.
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It is almost impossible to favor a certain application for download bandwidth. You can do little if the link is overloaded and the ISP discard a packet. You can not get that packet back no matter what you configure.

The only thing you can truly control is outbound traffic. Obviously you could block all request to any site other than steam and netflix and they would then be left with all the bandwidth.

Hard to say if you do anything at all with this router. The only ones you even have a chance on are ones that let you set certain groups of traffic to fixed levels. The high.medium,low crap is mostly for show and all the DSCP markings that some routers have are stripped off as soon as the data gets to the ISP.

You best option if...
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bill001g

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It is almost impossible to favor a certain application for download bandwidth. You can do little if the link is overloaded and the ISP discard a packet. You can not get that packet back no matter what you configure.

The only thing you can truly control is outbound traffic. Obviously you could block all request to any site other than steam and netflix and they would then be left with all the bandwidth.

Hard to say if you do anything at all with this router. The only ones you even have a chance on are ones that let you set certain groups of traffic to fixed levels. The high.medium,low crap is mostly for show and all the DSCP markings that some routers have are stripped off as soon as the data gets to the ISP.

You best option if the router has is to restrict inbound traffic to a low rate to reserve enough for your preferred applications. If for example you have a 10m download speed and want to reserve 7m for netflix and steam you would match everything except those 2 things and put a hard limit on the traffic to 3m. This then leaves 7m. This is just a variation of the block all traffic you do not like. It may make the connection unusable for those applications if you set it too low. The bad thing is it reserves this bandwidth even if the netflix and steam are not using it. It also does not work for some application...you are actually dropping traffic your router already received and you are just telling the machines you received 3m when you actually received more. If the application does not respond by slowing down it will keep sending say 5m and you drop 2m and deliver only 3m.

The first thing to check is if you can set limits to a hard number of bits/sec by groups...if not you might as well forget it unless you happen to be one of those rare households that is exceeding its upload bandwidth.
 
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