Guide for QoS?

[wh7qq]

There is an excellent primer on QOS written by Toastman who is the developer of one of the TomatoUSB forks at http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/qos-tutorial.68795/. This should be required reading for anyone hoping to use QOS.

 

[Authority]

It's usually best to configure QoS with your upload speed set at 70% of your actual max speed. For example, if your upstream is 2 Mbits, set it to 1.7 Mbits in QoS. That will usually result in smoother performance when QoS has to kick in.

Is 1.7 Mbits 70% of 2 Mbits? #math

 

[RMerlin]

Is 1.7 Mbits 70% of 2 Mbits? #math

This was probably just a typo - can't tell for sure since you're quoting a four year old message... My advise is usually to set it to around 80-90%, because 70% seem a bit too conservative.

 

[Aich Pamular]

I found a tutorial on how to configure QOS properly and it worked for me you can try it too.

 

[wh7qq]

Making sure that credit goes where due, the exhausive tutorial on QoS that was attributed to me above was in fact from Toastman of TomatoUSB fame: http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/qos-tutorial.68795/.

I have never set QoS up on my network...have no need for it...but did play around a bit with it and found this tutorial to be very helpful to understand exactly what QoS was doing. Of course, now I have forgotten it all...one of the viscitudes of the aging process.

 

[tsunami2311]

Making sure that credit goes where due, the exhausive tutorial on QoS that was attributed to me above was in fact from Toastman of TomatoUSB fame: http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/qos-tutorial.68795/.

I have never set QoS up on my network...have no need for it...but did play around a bit with it and found this tutorial to be very helpful to understand exactly what QoS was doing. Of course, now I have forgotten it all...one of the viscitudes of the aging process.

Not to resurrect this old topic, but i was bored to so read up on this and QOS and came away even more confuse then i was before. limiting bandwidth just cant be simple IE have 200/35 speeds, by only allowing wired those speeds and make all wifi limited to 15/15 but after reading this me limiting my wifi to 15/15 is probably why my routers cpu is seeing so much usage like 75/90% for just limited clients when just one of those clients are sending at those speeds.