Splitting up internet bandwidth?

[Stealth2668]

When I'm gaming and someone else is online, I get a high ping. I have 10 mbps down so how can I keep about half the bandwidth to myself (~500 kbps) and let everyone else share the rest? I'm connected directly to the router and everyone else uses wifi. I have a d-link DIR 655. Thanks.

 

[byza]

You need to set up QoS. Check the manual to find out how.

 

[Stealth2668]

Hmm, this seams pretty complicated. If I want to play games online on my PC, what should I set my "Local Port Range" and "Remote Port Range" to in the QOS Engine Rules?

 

[bill001g]

Not even close to as complicated as a router that can actually have any ability to do this.

Short answer is this router can not accomplish what you need so you can stop here if you have no plans to buy a different device.

To even think to do this you need a router that has a much more advanced form of QoS. Look at the latest tplink or asus manuals for examples.

Still even these the vast majority of feature are window dressing that are completely removed by the ISP even you manage to mark packets.

The only feature that has value is the ability to place a hard bit/sec limit on traffic based on IP address or other methods. Even routers that have this ability most can only do it on traffic being SENT..ie upload. The vast majority of peoples overload conditions are received traffic..ie download.

So to even think to do this you must have a router that can limit download to fixed values. It tends to be a rather complex configuration because rather than guarantee one machine you are limiting others so there is always a certain amount of unused bandwidth available for the group of machines you want to favor.

The bad news is this is not even QoS. You can't actually control what the ISP sends or what the isp discards because by the time your router gets any data the ISP has already done what it is going to do. It can't recreate data the ISP discards. This is dependent on a error recover method inside of TCP protocol. What you do is throw away even more data that has already used up your internet connection with the hope the end machines will detect this and try to avoid the data loss by slowing down the transmissions. It works well for many application so it is a valid thing to try but the only reason it really works is because the applications choose to honor these rules some do not....bit torrent tends to not be limited very well.