RTAC66u QoS? how to rate limit?

[disenter]

I've been trying to mess with QoS as a means of rate limiting some devices connected.
Basically, kids go streaming stuff from youtube etc, and its consuming the WAN bandwidth, making anything else wireless suffer as a result.

What I would like, is just to set devices by mac address a given percent of the maximum available WAN bandwidth, and have the router only allow that much on the wireless side also.

So, for a 1mb/s link, X device has 20% maximum, or 200kb/s etc.

I did try this via QoS, but everytime I enable it, my own pc's download speed was reduced to 100kb/s as well!

I did try taking out the default rules, and just doing it by ip and/or mac addy, and using the priorities, but the same thing happens..

I have tried this on the stock firmwares, to current, and Merlins as well.

Is QoS just useless/broken on this router? am I doing it completely wrong?
Or, is there a proper 'rate-limit' function that is perhaps hidden or only accessible via telnet? or a user script that can be added etc?

I bought this router, because I wanted this particular functionality, and because my billion 7800N is/was dieing seemingly... its now running bridged mode fine, but wasn't coping with 4 iphones, an ipad 3, 2 xbox's, a ps3, cable tv, a laptop, and a couple of pc's running through it.

The ac66u is handling it well, but just cannot seem to get it to limit bandwidth on a per device basis :\

Any idea's ??

Cheers!
Dave.

 

[cliver]

Did you get anywhere with this?
I'm having similar problems getting my mind around the QoS and Firewall setup.
Also having trouble undestanding the log.
Is there an idiots guide anywhere for these things?

 

[CL-Jeremy]

Hello,

Here is a guide for QoS - http://support.asus.com/Search/KDetail.aspx?SLanguage=en&no=A96BF68D-98C9-9D26-129A-3D5E596D3073&t=2

@Dave: Have you set the QoS for the MAC address like you wanted? Or are you using the automatic settings? For automatic, it applies to all users so that may be why you are experiencing limits on all of your clients. On the QoS page, look for the drop-down box in the upper-right. Go to "User-Defined QoS Rules" to set limits for specific IP or MAC addresses.

@Cliver: If there is something specific you are looking for please let me know.

If either of you have questions about setting anything up, feel free to email me.

 

[cliver]

Hello,

Here is a guide for QoS - http://support.asus.com/Search/KDetail.aspx?SLanguage=en&no=A96BF68D-98C9-9D26-129A-3D5E596D3073&t=2

@Dave: Have you set the QoS for the MAC address like you wanted? Or are you using the automatic settings? For automatic, it applies to all users so that may be why you are experiencing limits on all of your clients. On the QoS page, look for the drop-down box in the upper-right. Go to "User-Defined QoS Rules" to set limits for specific IP or MAC addresses.

@Cliver: If there is something specific you are looking for please let me know.

If either of you have questions about setting anything up, feel free to email me.

Thanks Jeremy, that's quite a good guide. I''ll have a read and if I have any more questions I'll get back to you.
I'm specifically looking for a way to block or seriously throttle torrents in particular.
Thanks again, your help much appreciated.

 

[fernando_montalban]

Hi,

Would just reply here rather than duplicating a topic.

May I just ask if I could leave the boxes in the defined QoS rules blank? are they as good as "all"?
My goal is to just prioritize client experience.
For example, give PC1 higher priority than PC2 regardless of what PC1 is doing.

> Service name [PC1]
> Source IP [x.x.x.x]
> Destination port [BLANK]
> Protocol [Any]
> Transferred [BLANK~BLANK]
> Priority [Highest]