QOS for gaming

[KoKaRoT]

Hi guys

Is anyone familiar with QOS setup to optimize certain protocols/traffic at a higher priority,

I have a TP-LINK TD-W8950ND, i have looked around have seen it works for some people,
at home i have a 1Mb uncapped Gold acc from openweb, and if i try play a game of Dota 2 and the GF logs into watsapp or gets a messsage as she uses the wireless, it spikes the game, and i mean i doubt watsapp needs to pull full line speed to deliver a >2KB message.

And with QOS i believe it might iron out this issue.
Has anyone got any experience with this, or have it setup at home and can provide feedback.

I mainly play Dota 2 and Battlefield 3

Regards

 

[unskinnybob]

Waste of time/energy IMHO. QoS only kicks in when your line is at 100% utilization. And when it does, even on reputable kit like Cisco, only new traffic gets prioritised properly. If you have something choking your line QoS usually does a crappy job of alleviating contention. That or our Cisco crew don't know WTF they're doing - which is quite possible.

 

[Pada]

+1 to what unskinnybob said.

Even with the MikroTik routers I can't setup QoS for gaming without shaping the other traffic to a halt!
So the best that I can do is to like limit all the non-gaming traffic permanently to like 50kbps down/10kbps up.

So every time I want to play games, I have to switch between 2 sets of QoS rules: 1 for games and 1 for no-gaming

In your case you can probably go the easy route and shape ALL the other LAN IP's traffic into the ground and give your LAN IP highest priority!

 

[alternate]

Kokarot I have the same problem and router. I'm going to try setup QoS this weekend and let you know how it goes.