I need low latency, and I've been doing a lot of testing after reading toastman's guide and nothing seems to work. I've used Tomato firmware on 2 different routers. Asus RT-N10P and the original linksys WRT54G. I currently use the earlier router. The latency issues occur when I notice a short peak as someone starts a youtube video or opens a new web page (this varies). QoS does a great job for the most part, but to me it doesn't seem 100% perfect in limiting those short peaks. I configured QoS using another guide where I set my own ip as the destination and source as the highest priority. I also unchecked all the prioritize specific small packets + icmp. Toatman's guide says that the right QoS settings is a mixture of incoming and outgoing traffic limits. I messed with them a lot while in-game as people were surfing the net and watching videos. I could not find anything that would work. I think my best and final solution is to buy a separate connection. I also read somewhere on thinkbroadband forums that certain ISP also use QoS on their end, which makes me think that might be contributing to the latency issues I'm getting. I was also told on these forums, if I wanted the latest QoS it would have to be a PC with IPfire installed. I never heard of IPfire, but can someone tell me if that might be a worth option to test out before buying a new-separate internet service?
Edit: I'm thinking of disabling all of the classification presets in QoS. Then putting everything in low priority by default. Except Voip/Game and my ip would be put in the highest priority. Would this be something worth trying?
Edit: I'm thinking of disabling all of the classification presets in QoS. Then putting everything in low priority by default. Except Voip/Game and my ip would be put in the highest priority. Would this be something worth trying?
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