Anyway to give one app bandwidth priority?

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Is there anyway to give one application (google chrome) absolute bandwidth priority on my media PC? Set and forget?

Live in a village and internet is on the slow side so don't have a lot of bandwidth to spare. I don't want to set limits for each application as it's a waste when not needing to limit e.g. watching an already downloaded movie, I'm not now using Chrome so want my other applications to run full speed.

I want to be on Chrome watching HD youtube videos or iplayer etc and all my other applications i.e. windows updates, steam\uplay\origin, nzb client, utorrent, dropbox etc to take whatever bandwidth left that Chrome is not using.

Does anything exist that can make this happen?

Thanks!
 
I've used netlimiter in the past and it did not do what I described I want to achieve? It instead wanted me to set a max speed for each application?

Has it changed to a priority based system?
 
No mention of what router you are using so hard to advise but yes you should be able to set some kind of QOS up (router depending) to prioritise either your PC or the protocol itself.
 
According to the link posted by APM, NetLimiter has priority-based traffic management in development, but doesn't offer what you need right now.

What you're wanting is QoS, however there are numerous issues, ranging from router compatibility to implementation and not really working well at all. Virtually no consumer routers have QoS that actually works.
 
lamboman said:
Virtually no consumer routers have QoS that actually works.
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A very broad statement and can you evidence that?

Asus routers have a great QOS that works fine from my testing.
Consumer routers running DD-WRT also work well from experience.

Although not classed as "consumer" a MikroTik CRS sat next to me does QOS (of a sort) fine. I wouldn't say it's consumer but it's not earth breakingly priced so "could" fall into the prosumer class.
 
Steveocee said:
A very broad statement and can you evidence that?

Asus routers have a great QOS that works fine from my testing.
Consumer routers running DD-WRT also work well from experience.

Although not classed as "consumer" a MikroTik CRS sat next to me does QOS (of a sort) fine. I wouldn't say it's consumer but it's not earth breakingly priced so "could" fall into the prosumer class.
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How well do they actually work on very slow connections that need very heavy prioritisation? My personal experience as well as plenty of threads dotted across the internet (SmallNetBuilder as usual being a great source) has shown Asus' old QoS is known to be essentially useless, and feedback again dotted around states that DD-WRT's is better but not great. The two that I've tried that have truly worked are Tomato and m0n0wall (the former requiring a compatible router and the latter being aimed at lower power PCs rather than conventional consumer router hardware).

Not to say that great QoS can't be found at a decent price, just that it is extremely difficult to find on virtually anything in the consumer space other than a router supporting Tomato nowadays!
 
Steveocee said:
No mention of what router you are using so hard to advise but yes you should be able to set some kind of QOS up (router depending) to prioritise either your PC or the protocol itself.
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Billion BiPAC 7800DXL is my router.

I just kinda thought I might have been missing out on some software that can prioritize the traffic of one application seamlessly without permanently capping the rest?

From reading the responses what I want is a bit more complicated than I imagined! :D
 
Kmodo said:
I might have been missing out on some software that can prioritize the traffic of one application seamlessly without permanently capping the rest?:D
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QOS doesn't really "cap" the rest of the traffic, when in an idle state it allows all traffic the full amount of bandwidth until said priority comes through it where by it reigns other protocols in.

I've not had any experience with the Billion routers but a quick google seems to imply that the QOS functions allow bandwidth capping and/or WAN>LAN priority, try setting the desired protocols to high or highest and see if it helps?
 
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the netlimiter can be quite a useful tool but it does require some input,it's the first thing that came to mind after scanning the original OP
 
tribz said:
I used to use Cfos when I had a poor internet connection which worked very well.

http://www.cfos.de/en/cfosspeed/cfosspeed.htm
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Seems intermittent (though could be user error xD ). Sometimes it works a treat and sometimes not at all.

I decided to watch the quick settings tab and it was jumping between traffic priority level for the same application using the same protocol? e.g. "lower" low then "higher" jumping back and forth.

Also for the bandwidth intensive stuff youtube hd videos streams (chrome) and nzb downloads (newshosting) were using the same protocol.

Which meant I could not just go x protocol has priority.

It's a shame you can not just set it to ignore protocals and use ONLY rules set for programname.exe
 
Was going to say, trying to do QoS at the router level without some layer 7 inspection is often pointless, especially as so many services use Akamai or AWS for their CDN requirements. You could prioritize SSL over everything else but what doesn't use SSL these days? Certainly your news stuff will be, and I'd be surprised if Steam and Windows updates weren't.
 
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