Router priority - QoS?

[Mixeh]

Hi,

I currently run a netgear dg834gt router to share our measly 1.5mb (on average) connection with the rest of the family. However, whenever i try to game online i get terrible lag spikes when people use the wireless to load web pages, etc. I'm assuming this is due to the web page request using all the bandwidth leaving the game to wither up and die

Has anyone had any experience with any routers using QoS (intelligent proroty, etc)? I've been eyeing up some thing along the lines of the D-Link DIR-650 but I'm not sure if this would help at all - do any of the Linksys boxes with custom firmware/linux offer anything like this?

Any help would be appreciated, started getting on my ****.

 

[Mixeh]

that looks promising mate, specifically

Wasnt too sure whether QoS would have any affect but that sort of implementation would seem to be perfect for what im after.
Any recommendations for a supported router?

 

[Mixeh]

My WRT54GL was delivered yesterday afternoon along with my new system. I've just got around to linking it up to my current network setup but I'm not totally convinced it's going to work as I want :s

I want to use the Netgear DG834GT as an ADSL modem (disabling WLAN), but obviously this cant be connected to the WAN port on the WRT54GL.
At the moment i have the WRT54GL connected to the Netgear via one of the LAN ports, my main pc connected to the WRT54GL on one of the ethernet ports, and everthing else connected to the WRT54GL over the wireless connection (laptops, other desktops, XBMC, etc). I can't see how I can configure the QoS on the WRT54GL without affefcting the LAN performance, rather than just the WAN traffic.

I'm assuming I ideally need an ADSL modem to get this working :s If thats the case, anyone know where I can get something cheap? Shame to waste the Netgear though really

 

[Mixeh]

There's nothing stopping you. The DG834GT should ideally have a bridge mode though, rather than just disabling the wireless.

If it doesn't, give the WRT54GL a static IP address (either manually or setting the DG834GT to give out the same IP to the WRT54GL's WAN interface MAC address) and set the DG834GT DMZ to that IP - that way you only have to do one lot of port forwarding (on the WRT54GL).

Quality. Didn't realise the DG834GT had a bridge mode but did a quick search and found a few posts on it (one categorically denying the ability to change the device mode, heh). Dunno why Netgear feel the need to "hide" any remotely advanced option for their routers from view.

Cheers.