Need help setting QoS on a D-Link 2730u.

[rvg90]

I tried searching google for any useful guides but i cant really find anything useful for this specific router,

First when i enable QoS it asks me to "Select Default DSCP Mark" and i have no clue what option is what then there are 2 other tabs "Queue Config" and that has my default interface listed in it with the option to tick 'Enable' and then the last tab is "QoS Classification" which has nothing but an option to add a class.

I wanna set it up so that the computers connected with a wire gain priority over wi-fi user(i am sharing it with neighbors and i am ok with that but i cant really keep track of who is downloading what and slowing my internet).

Thanks in advance.

 

[bill001g]

Dlink being a pain today manual won't load for me but I suspect it doesn't matter.

I don't know why manufacture have the DSCP packet marking stuff even in routers. Even if you were to set these options they are immediately removed as soon as the packets get to the ISP. DSCP is really only used in corporate environments between locations and these so called routers only function is to connect to the internet not between location in a corporate network.

The only thing you can likely control with your router is the use of the upload bandwidth. You might be able to match the mac addresses of the devices and set them to say high,medium,low queues.... most manufactures don't even tell what this means or how what they are doing. It is some "magic" they put in I suspect to make you think they are doing something.

Even if you had a very advanced router QoS that you could limit a device to say 500k/sec it is only in the outbound side...ie upload. In almost all cases it is download traffic that is being exceeded. The ISP is in complete control of what is sent to you. If the ISP drops a bunch of what you consider important traffic what can any router do to recreate it since it is gone before your router is even involved with the data.

Unless you are trying to prevent your neighbor from say seeding torrent files and blowing up your upload I suspect you are wasting your time. Since this is a DSL router you can not even attempt to load third party firmware that has more advanced QoS. Even then it take a very special configuration that does not work on all types of traffic.

 

[rvg90]

Yea i was looking to prevent downloads not uploads, guess i shouldn't waste my time trying to figure it out then...