QoS Settings: Counterstrike

BeatMaster · 4 Jul 2007 at 12:42

I've just got a new router, Billion 7300G. I'm a little unsure of what settigs I should be using for the QoS aspect. I need to ensure that my brothers Counterstrike gets priority but exactly what settings are best I'm unsure upon on.

Anyone setup QoS for Counterstrike? Any recommended settings for perhaps QoS in general?

BeatMaster

Tui · 6 Jul 2007 at 21:19

QoS should let you set up priority queue handling and control bandwidth for links that have traffic contention. If you're running servers or P2P then you'll certainly get contention on your relatively slower upstream link.

From the Billion manual, looks like all you can do is allocate bandwidth for a fixed or minimum required value.

For Counterstrike, the game traffic is a maximum of about 30 kb/s. I'd allow double this so would put an entry in for LAN to WAN, and a percentage to give you 60-70 kb/s, local application port will be 27005 if you're using the default client port. The rest depends on what other traffic you have, like voice over IP would require 80 kb/s if using the G711 codec. I would also reserve about 5kb/s for DNS (remote UDP 53) and NTP (remote UDP 123) if you use it.

For WAN to LAN traffic, there's very little you can do since the traffic has already arrived. The best that can be done is to throttle any traffic that swamps your downstream during transfers. The theory is that this will leave enough bandwidth for other traffic, but tests I've made with my kit is that you need to throttle to at least half the available bandwidth for this to make a difference. So you have to make the choice of fastest downloads verses better gaming, though you could have this on a time schedule.

BeatMaster · 6 Jul 2007 at 22:34

Thats a really detailed answer Tui, very much appreciated!

I've now configured the LAN to WAN accordingly so will test that out and see if makes much of a difference. Hopefully, fingers crossed! Will have to read up about DNS and NTP with regards for rules for them. First router I've had with QoS so it's just trying to come up with the best configuration in terms of getting the most out of the network without getting swamped with over-utilization

If you got any further thoughts, I'd be interested and I'm sure others would be too

Cheers,

BeatMaster