Traffic priority settings in router or elsewhere...?

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I find that when I download torrents, it hogs all of my available bandwidth and browsing, or doing pretty much anything else on the internet becomes useless.

How can I prioritize certain traffic to ensure that I can still browse while downloading, and without severely impacting the torrent downloads (of my linux backups, of course)...?

I have a D-Link 2750U router btw...
 
Play with the speed limits on your torrent client until you strike a balance - what client are you using?
 
One of the problems with traffic prioritization is that your QOS policies need to be understood on both devices communicating. So either PC -> Router OR Router -> Router.

That being said I've never really tried this but I would assume you could tag your PC's outbound traffic with a QOS priority and then set up QOS rules on the inside interface of your router?

Alternative would be to have packets tagged as they leave RouterA and then have RouterB shaping the connection.
 
Get a Mikrotik router and setup QOS on it. Works like a charm. You can have your torrents going full blast and chat on Skype or VOIP at the same time.
 
MickZA said:
Play with the speed limits on your torrent client until you strike a balance - what client are you using?
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uTorrent. I notice that it only becomes an issue when downloading multiple torrents at the same time. Single torrents download at full line speed and don't interrupt other activities at all, but the moment I add a second all browsing grounds to a halt...

Napalm2880 said:
One of the problems with traffic prioritization is that your QOS policies need to be understood on both devices communicating. So either PC -> Router OR Router -> Router.

That being said I've never really tried this but I would assume you could tag your PC's outbound traffic with a QOS priority and then set up QOS rules on the inside interface of your router?

Alternative would be to have packets tagged as they leave RouterA and then have RouterB shaping the connection.
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This would probably work if I understood how to do this. TBH this is far above my pay-grade so I'll leave this sort of fiddling to another time when I can have my IT guy come to my house and do it for me...:D
 
deweyzeph said:
Get a Mikrotik router and setup QOS on it. Works like a charm. You can have your torrents going full blast and chat on Skype or VOIP at the same time.
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There is a QoS setting which seems pretty advanced in the D-Link router but I have no idea how it works. I might need to go do some googling...:o
 
MickeyD said:
uTorrent
Options
Preferences
Bandwidth
- Maximum download rate (0 is unlimited - default) -> play with this setting.
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I set it to 30kbps below my typical download speed but it had no impact. Will continue playing with the settings but I'd prefer that it went at full line speed and when I browsed it would take a dip. I'd have expected that to be a simple setting in my router to prioritize certain traffic. It is my understanding that html traffic goes through a different port to torrent traffic...
 
Had the same issue, Telkom does not support the QoS setting. You need to set up another PC with Smoothwall or something.
 
biometrics said:
Had the same issue, Telkom does not support the QoS setting. You need to set up another PC with Smoothwall or something.
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Ah, I see. Too much geekery for my limited knowledge, I'm afraid. I tried installing Spiceworks so that I could monitor all traffic going in and out of my router. It took me about 2 days to figure out how to just set it up to find all of my devices properly, only to realize that its nearly impossible for me alone to figure out how to get it to record data from my Macs, openelec box and my cellphone. So it simply records two Windows machines instead. Big whoop! I could have installed a data monitor to them if I wanted that.

So I'm kinda giving up on learning all of this geekery as it inevitably requires a PhD in Star Wars to figure out.

As an end user, I wish there were applications that would just do what you expect of it without all of the geekery that comes with it. Like if I want to know what traffic is going through my router, I should be able to click a button and find out. And if I want torrent traffic to take a lower priority than web traffic, I can just move it down the queue. Alas, I'll need to have my IT guy over for a few braais instead...:p
 
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