[SOLVED] Setting up QoS on a TP-Link TD-W8961N

[SyBom]

I've been trying to setup QoS, Because when my roommate is watching a youtube video and I'm doing something like gaming he takes all the bandwidth even though they video already has something like 30 seconds buffered.

I've read some papers and these are the settings I got, My roommate isn't here for a week so I can't test it right now.

Will these settings works or did I get something wrong ??

Edit: The MAC Addresses in the pictures are my PC's.

 

[bill001g]

So whoever wrote the guide you followed is a idiot.

Setting DSCP markings are a complete waste of time on anything other than a private network that is completley controlled and nobody will use a consumer router on that network. All DSCP markings are stripped off by the ISP and all traffic coming in from the internet will all have a marking set to zero.

Queue "highest" means very little. What percentage of the traffic does it get compared to other traffic.

And last and MOST important this router can only do UPLOAD traffic. The problem you describe is DOWNLOAD.

In addition QoS can not fix wifi problems. Even very advanced QoS will only fix WAN/LAN issues.

You are wasting you time with this router. They could remove 90% of the screen because it does nothing and even the 10% that remains will not fix your issue.

Even on routers that can limit the download rates this is not real effective because the by the time your router is involved the traffic has already consumed the bandwidth.

Unless you have a very small internet connection youtube should not be able to consume all the bandwidth.

 

[SyBom]

So whoever wrote the guide you followed is a idiot.

Setting DSCP markings are a complete waste of time on anything other than a private network that is completley controlled and nobody will use a consumer router on that network. All DSCP markings are stripped off by the ISP and all traffic coming in from the internet will all have a marking set to zero.

Queue "highest" means very little. What percentage of the traffic does it get compared to other traffic.

And last and MOST important this router can only do UPLOAD traffic. The problem you describe is DOWNLOAD.

In addition QoS can not fix wifi problems. Even very advanced QoS will only fix WAN/LAN issues.

You are wasting you time with this router. They could remove 90% of the screen because it does nothing and even the 10% that remains will not fix your issue.

Even on routers that can limit the download rates this is not real effective because the by the time your router is involved the traffic has already consumed the bandwidth.

Unless you have a very small internet connection youtube should not be able to consume all the bandwidth.

Thanks

Can you recommend me a good router, Because if i ask my ISP they'll probably sell me something very expensive and more than what i need.

 

[bill001g]

The best QoS is actually on third party firmware but the router can not contain a modem and I suspect you are running a DSL connection.

Many asus and tplink routers have more advanced QpS. Most their mid priced to high end models all run the same software image. You need to look through the online manuals. You need one that you can limit machines download rates. Some you can set minimum and maximum rates.

Key here to remember is you can't actually run QoS on the download side of any connection. Actual download QoS would have to be done on the ISP router before it is sent. What is being done on router download QoS is you discard traffic you actually received hoping that the extra data loss will be detected by the end machine and it will request data at a lower rate. Since the data was actually received it still used up the bandwidth and if the client it not tricked into requesting less it will not be effective. Things like youtube will work torrent downloads will not.

QoS really doesn't work on very small or very large internet connections. Very small connections say less than 10mbps small short bursts of data will still cause spikes and in large connections the cpu load on the router will bottleneck the connections running QoS.

The only true solution to a QoS problem is to buy more bandwidth.