How to set up QOS? (Networking question)

[nine2]

Can I use QOS to prioritize FAF over the other network traffic in my house?

How? I'm technical but dont know much about networking.

I will need to buy a new ADSL router I think, which is ok, but don't know what I need.

Thanks!

[RoLa]

Do you mean Traffic Shaping

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... -switch?

or a bit more in detail:
http://blog.dlink.com/traffic-shaping-v ... f-service/

[da_monstr]

I believe routers with QOS are quite expensive, unless you flash DD-WRT on one.

[ax0lotl]

I configured my router to use QoS (Quality of Service) for FA. I'm not an expert either, and I'm not sure if it makes a difference.

I have an Arcadyan VGV7519 (comes standard with my Telfort provider). QoS settings are under EXTRAS. It has a number of priority levels. These are the settings as I adjusted them:

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Normally AF3 is not in use, AF4 is used by http and https, AF1/BE by torrent etc. I gave 15% from AF1 to AF3.
And I reassigned HTTP/HTTPS to AF3 and added lines for FA assigned to AF4.

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So in theory my router should give higher priority to FA than to downloading/uploading of housemates.

Make sure that port forwarding is done first:
http://www.faforever.com/mediawiki/inde ... nitive_fix

[nine2]

Thanks guys.

Is prioritizing UDP port 6112 really all I need to do? I thought there would be more port?

Will QoS make it so that FA gameplay still works well even if my computer is downloading from windows update from 4 machines at once?

Regarding Cost, the Billion 7700N has "qos" and costs ~$50. I'm trying to work out if this will cut it.
https://www.umart.com.au/umart1/pro/Pro ... &sid=73000

Regarding DD-WRT, that's a pretty interesting idea. I've never done anything like that before, but I do have a spare modem sitting right here that is supported.

Many thanks

[E8400-CV]

A lot of routers with QoS do it the nonsense way. The one I had (Linksys AG241) would just limit everything marked as "less important" to 10% of maximum bandwidth, regardless of use...

[Anaryl]

Wat.


That's not how you even ...

f*** it.

edit: I think you guys might be thinking of DiffServ http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies ... a3e2f.html
In that case it could help - although it would depend on the size of the LAN. To be honest if you can afford it and it's possible, add more bandwidth. If you are talking ADSL & a congested LAN sharehouse type situation - adding another discrete connection is more cost effective and will yield better results than QoS.

[nine2]

Adding more bandwidth is not an option. I have tonnes of devices all running windows update and people watching youtube and maybe something downloading and ipads syncing whenever they want. I was hoping that QOS could help with that and it sounds like to some extent it can.

@Anaryl, what were you going to say? I'm interested

Does anyone know of a way to test if it is working or not? All I can think of is to start a test game with someone and measure the ping. Then do it whilst maxing out my bandwidth on another computer. Then doing it again with QOS enabled.

[Axle]

I tried messing around with QoS too. I set up some rules to flag as EF anything coming or going to udp port 6112. To try verify I loaded wireshark and inspected the DSCP codes of all the relevant udp packets. However they were all still 0x00 :/ So I guess its not working ...

[nine2]

Did you set the rules up locally on your windows box?