harleychen :
Hi guys,
My router is shared with probably 6-10 devices in the house and luckily I have the Lan connection (the router is in my room). I searched up that QoS (Quality of Service) may be able to improve that. So I logged on to my router and I am completely puzzled. The QoS settings for my router is completely different than anything that I have seen. Can someone help me with this? How do I fill out all the information in here?
Hey there,
So, firstly -what page do you get when you click the "Add +" button on top right. I have a feeling that might be a wizard/easier way of adding systems/programs to QoS -if its halfway decent firmware it could/should at least populate most of those fields for you, and then you set a priority number.
Manually doing this for all your devices and related software that you want to prioritize would be somewhat time consuming.
But in case it isn't a magic button -I will go over what the fields mean:
Priority - I would guess that this setting trumps all, but used
with speed rates you can construct a nice prioritization with some careful planning. 1 would be top of the list first priority, and 255 being the least important
Interface - Keep this on WAN for prioritizing things like web browsing, Netflix, Skype, or any web-enabled app. If you want to prioritize traffic between different devices on your local network, I imagine there is a LAN setting.
Min/Max rate - manually set the min and maximum amount of bandwidth said system/app can use. A good bit could go into calculating this depending on how you approach it.
##For the sake of examples I am going to assume you are concerned with which devices get priority when using web applications/browsing..?
#If you have say a 20Mbps (~20,000 Kbits/s) Downlink speed from your ISP, (check here; www.speedtest.net) Then you just do some math: A kbit (kilobit) is 1024bits. So setting the Max Rate: to say 2000 Kbits (2Mbps) -you are essentially allotting said device/app to use at maximum about 1/10 of your total link to the internet. This is not hard fast math and your actual throughput will [always] vary.
Mode -what are the other options? Protocol QoS means you are going to set priorities based on TCP and UDP for general applications/games, and probably HTTP among other protocols, and their associated port numbers they each use, that would populate the Source/Destination Port Range fields. Once again, it is not hard to find out what ports a program uses -a quick Google away- but also, once again, this would take some time if you have a lot of programs/devices.
Source IP Range: This is usually the local IP of the device(s) in question. Its usually fine to put the same IP on both sides of the range; ex. 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.10 to demonstrate one device (this goes with the ports as well -if an application just needs one port you can input 88 - 88 in source/destination. Note a lot of apps do have ranges of ports they use)
Destination IP Range: Now this I am taking an educated guess. I would imagine you would either input the IP address/Default gateway of the router itself for web apps, like I've been talking about, or the IP address(s) of local machine(s) -your other devices- if doing QoS on local traffic.
List the other options from Interface and Mode if you could please.
But try that Add+ button first!
Hope to help!
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