Does QoS include the router itself?

[vrapp]

Merlin, since you turned your attention to QoS, which is very good news, maybe you could look into whether the router itself is part of QoS. Having Transmission running on the router, I see that its traffic has much bigger impact than any of the LAN workstations. Such as, uTorrent running on Windows workstation at speed 200/50 will have negligible effect on others' browsing, but Transmission on the router with 50/10 will have noticeable impact.

It should be also noted that in Traditional and Bandwidth limiter settings, it's possible to prioritize the clients, but not the router itself - which, given the possibility of running Transmission etc., is desirable.

 

[L&LD]

What you may be seeing is the torrenting maxing out the processor when done on the router and affecting everything else the router does.

 

[vrapp]

Just checked. No, both CPU's at 2-3%.

 

[oversim]

No QoS does not include router's traffic. Maybe it's a non-sense but that it is..
If you try to image a "normal" network, the internet traffic made by router - gateway is irrelevant, in our network, in our gateway running P2P daemon, it's the opposite.
For these reasons, I bought an Odroid C1 Linux box and I use it as P2P client on my home network... and yes, QoS does works.

 

[Skoven]

You are getting ~3% CPU when downloading a torrent trough transmission ON the router?
That can't be right...
As L&LD pionted out, running torrents directly on the router, can have quite the impact - my router can go as high as 150% CPU when downloading a torrent (60mbit donwload). It will also pretty much max out the RAM.

 

[vrapp]

You are getting ~3% CPU when downloading a torrent trough transmission ON the router?
That can't be right...
As L&LD pionted out, running torrents directly on the router, can have quite the impact - my router can go as high as 150% CPU when downloading a torrent (60mbit donwload). It will also pretty much max out the RAM.

Maybe different router? Mine is AC68.

In this case when I tried, Transmission was uploading. I will give it something popular to download tonight and will double-check.

 

[Skoven]

Maybe different router? Mine is AC68.

In this case when I tried, Transmission was uploading. I will give it something popular to download tonight and will double-check.

Yes... i have an AC3200.

I think i saw a post here that explained that one of the reasons for high CPU usage when downloading torrents on the router, is related to USB disk-writing activities. That would explain low CPU usage when seeding. But don't quote me on that one

 

[vrapp]

Two torrents - one downloading from 22 peers at 400KB/sec, another from 6 at 40 KB/s :