prioritising http traffic?

rudeboymcc

rudeboymcc

rudeboymcc

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Hi there. I've got a netgear DG834PN rangemax router and at the moment i can tell if another pc is downloading something as all internet on other computers is really slow.

Is there any way to tell the router to give priority to certain traffic? or give lower priority to some ports or ip addresses?
 
ok well i have one pc which serves all the videos to the tv and downloads at the same time. is it possibelt o get some sort of software that will tell it to prioritise streaming video over any downloading ports?
 
Not unless all traffic goes through that PC.
Otherwise how is the PC to know that another device is trying to download?

When you say the PC seves all the video, that would indicate that this is only internal traffic, and as such having QoS on the gateway would make no difference.

It may be a good idea for you to give the exact setup so we can give you some advice on what to do.
 
ok sorry i'm not being clear:
there's one router, an xbox, a desktop and loads of wireless laptops.

the desktop serves video to the xbox and also is used for downloads. problem was that the downloads were hogging the internet and stopping the laptops accessing it well, and also slowed down the video streaming.

my initial question was to give less priority to the desktop at the router (so all the other computers could access the itnernet better and the video streaming would be smoother).

this isn't possible with my router. so now i thought maybe i can solve the video streaming part only, by telling the desktop that video is the most important and should be higher than downloads. as these are both done through one computer surely it's possible?

i know this won't solve the internet conection problem of the laptops but that's a less important problem :)
 
The video streaming really shouldn't be affected, what internet Connection do you have? The LAN will (hopefully) be at least 100Mb, which will be a LOT more than the internet Connection. Are you sure it's the network bandwidth that's the bottleneck and not something like slow HDDs on the server box? If you are downloading lots of things at once (p2p will download lots of little parts of a file), there could be a lot of disk accesses going on, along with read writes to many sectors of the disk, This could be overwhelming the disk.
 
well i built the desktop specifically so it's got a seperate hard disk for downloading and the videos are on their own. everything's connected with 100mblan. internet conection is upto 8 meg.

so the internet connection shouldn't have any affect on the lan?? i thought that maybe ebcuase there are so many connections it will slow everything down.

maybe i'm just impatient (when i watch a video it's smooth, it's just the list of videos takes at least 15 seconds to come up (150 videos).)
 
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