Setting HTTP vs P2P Priority

[CrazyPeanut]

Hi Guys,

I have a 2Mb Uncapped line at home, which is great. There is effectively two PC's (one wireless) and my PS3 console on the line. I aslo have my smartphone connected when I'm home.

I have a TP MR3420 Wireless Router.

What I would like to do is set certain priorities on the network. Much like the ISPs do when they have shaping in effect. I want to give HTTP priority over everything else (P2P/ NNTP) in order to give myself the best possible browsing experience.

I have found that sometime browsing crawls to a halt when a P2P download is started, with the download getting the full 200Kpbs and nothing else really working anymore.

If something like this is at all possible, some info on how it works will be much appreciated.

 

[Segg]

I'm not too clued up on the config, but if I'm not mistaken it involves fiddling with QoS

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I have a TP-Link router with almost the same software, there isn't really any way to do manual QoS on it. You can however rate limit certain IP addresses so if the machine downloading the torrents is a separate machine you could do this but it's not very elegant.

You could download something like OpenWrt and flash that on your device as it offers much more robust QoS. If you have an extra PC around that you no longer use I would suggest using that as a firewall and then install something like Smoothwall which has excellent QoS.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Here is just an idea of what QoS option are available on the two options I mentioned above:

OpenWRT:

Smoothwall:

As you can see Smoothwall is a bit limited in customising the options, but it does make setting up a cakewalk. OpenWrt has some more freedom but I haven't actually seen how well it works.

 

[CrazyPeanut]

Thanks for the info. I've never even considered flashing my router, but it might not be a bad idea. I don't have an extra PC so Smoothwall wouldn't be the best option at this stage. Doing at Router level makes a bit more sense to me, as we have multiple devices on the network.

I will have to go look at the process of doing that. Maybe something fun to do over the weekend. I'm still a n00b with this networking thing, but there is only one way to learn.