QOS question

[Phool101]

Hey, I was wondering if a router that is set as an AP, will the QOS function work? Or does it have to be the main router in order for it to work? I've been playing around with it yesterday with the DD-WRT interface and there's an option to do it and I set the options to limit the speeds of some of my devices, however, it didn't work. Any ideas?

 

[itzdanielp]

It shouldn't have to be only on the main router, since it would control all packets being routed through it, before reaching the main router.

How do you know it didn't work?

 

[Phool101]

On the DD-WRT interface, I set the max uplink and downlink to 512 kbps (I'm assuming this is upload and download) and then I set the MAC address for my PS3 into the QOS list. I again set the max uplink and downlink and when I did the connection test, the results were way over the point where I set it as (10 mbps down, 5 mbps up).

So my only assumption left is that I have to configure the main router since this is suppose to be an Access Point (AP). But I still don't understand why I can't control the traffic of my AP.

 

[itzdanielp]

What version of DD-WRT are you using? From what I can see QoS on DD-WRT up until very recent releases pretty much didn't work...

 

[Phool101]

Shoot, I don't really remember the version of it. But all I know it's for a NetGear router WNR2000-V3 (the official firmware wasn't on the site but a member has made a custom firmware that made it work) (Maybe this is the problem?). I made a topic yesterday saying that the LAN ports doesn't work.

But it could be true that this firmware was made really recently.

 

[itzdanielp]

From what i have been able to read, any older firmware the GUI settings for QoS just flat out didn't work.

 

[Phool101]

Aw then that stinks. I tried another router to test the QOS. But when I set the router into AP mode, the QOS function gets disable. If I don't set AP mode, I won't be able to connect to the internet. Really stumped.

Any other products/routers that's good?

 

[itzdanielp]

You could try to use the other router as you said, but instead of putting it in AP mode, leave it DHCP, and assign a separate subnet range for the devices connected to it

That's usually a pita to do though...