Linksys Smart Wifi QoS?

[kevzz010]

I just bought a linksys n750 dual band and I'm trying to find where the QoS setting is. On my previous router which is the intellinet n150, I can easily configure the QoS and change a device's maximum download/upload speed whenever I want. On the linksys smart wifi, all I saw was PRIORITIZING the device's app and blocking the device's connection or something like that. The reason I want to LIMIT the download/upload speed of those that are using my wifi is because they stream a lot and hogging all my internet speed, making me unable to play online games. Is there anyone here who is really familiar with the linksys smart wifi setup that can help me? And if there's anyone who can give me some tips/advice to improve my setup/signal strength then I'd greatly appreciate it!

 

[maxwellmelon]

it may not be able to limit bandwidth of your new router. most of them that I deal with don't have it unless it commercial end router hardware or connecting though a network sever. most QoS is auto handled now and you cant set the values. I have also seen worse gaming ping values with QoS enabled at times.

you should have an manual with all the settings that the router has and where they are and what they do. it should be on a cd that came with it or online. if its not listed in there then the feature most likely doesn't exist.

 

[bill001g]

Most routers only have that silly high,medium,low garbage and call it QoS. It is completely worthless since even if you try to make it work it is only outbound..ie upload traffic which is seldom the issue. There is also another QoS for the wireless itself on some routers but that too has little value since you can not control your neighbors signals which is the key cause of wireless issues.

The router you used to have I suspect has the more advanced QoS where you can set download rates by ip groups of machine to fixed values. This does not always work but it is your best bet and does sometime work well for certain applications. It does not fix bit torrent though.

Not much you can do, many routers are designed for a person who does not want to configure anything so they leave out advanced feature to not confuse stupid people. Your only hope would be to see if you can load third party firmware on your router. DD-WRT has the ability to limit download and some versions of tomato have very advanced QoS.

 

[kevzz010]

Most routers only have that silly high,medium,low garbage and call it QoS. It is completely worthless since even if you try to make it work it is only outbound..ie upload traffic which is seldom the issue. There is also another QoS for the wireless itself on some routers but that too has little value since you can not control your neighbors signals which is the key cause of wireless issues.

The router you used to have I suspect has the more advanced QoS where you can set download rates by ip groups of machine to fixed values. This does not always work but it is your best bet and does sometime work well for certain applications. It does not fix bit torrent though.

Not much you can do, many routers are designed for a person who does not want to configure anything so they leave out advanced feature to not confuse stupid people. Your only hope would be to see if you can load third party firmware on your router. DD-WRT has the ability to limit download and some versions of tomato have very advanced QoS.

Actually on my old router, the qos works well. I can tell because they're telling me that the speed is too slow. But it's kinda old and the signal is pretty weak. Do you know a third party software that can configure qos?

 

[bill001g]

It sounds like the old router has the type of QoS that you can limit the bandwidth to a set amount. You would have to be very lucky to get a router to correctly limit traffic just by setting the game traffic to high and the rest to low. In a home environment where you do not have fancy traffic analyzers you pretty much just have to try a number of different things until you get it to work. Some traffic is easily limited...others like bit torrent is designed to get around even a ISP trying to limit the speed.

 

[kevzz010]

Should I use the old router instead? It's not a dual band though and it has a lil bit weaker signal.

 

[bill001g]

If you are worried about the wireless just run your new router as a AP and either turn off the wireless on the old router or set it to a different channel.

You could then use the old router as a wired routed and the new to just do wireless.