How do I use QoS Engine on my D-Link modem to prioritize my games?

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You walk over and tell the other person using the internet to stop because you want to play games.

QoS on home routers is pretty much a bunch of fancy screens that have lots of options that actually accomplish nothing in the real world, it is almost dishonest for the vendor to include this on many routers.

Your router can only prioritize upload traffic. I suspect your problem is you have exceeded your download traffic rate. The ISP is in full control of what data is send or dropped going to your house. By the time any router you have in your house get involved the data is gone, it can't recreate the data and drop something else. Although the ISP could allow you to configure QoS on their routers this only happens on very large...
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You walk over and tell the other person using the internet to stop because you want to play games.

QoS on home routers is pretty much a bunch of fancy screens that have lots of options that actually accomplish nothing in the real world, it is almost dishonest for the vendor to include this on many routers.

Your router can only prioritize upload traffic. I suspect your problem is you have exceeded your download traffic rate. The ISP is in full control of what data is send or dropped going to your house. By the time any router you have in your house get involved the data is gone, it can't recreate the data and drop something else. Although the ISP could allow you to configure QoS on their routers this only happens on very large enterprise connections.

There are some home routers that have even more advanced QoS that to some extent you can limit download traffic and put in hard limits but it only partially works and is tedious to get configured. What it accomplished though in most cases is a electronic version of walking down the hall and telling the other person I am using the internet so you can't.
 
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