setting priorities for RT-N66U

utajoker

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Hi

When i watch netflix and play wow my ping goes from 30-800.

ive tried setting warcraft to highest priority in the traffic management but that doesnt seem to make a difference.

anyone know how i can get wow as priority?
 
How do you watch TV and play PC games simultaneously?

In all fairness, how have you set up the bandwidth allowances? It's 1 thing configuring a program/protocol to a high or low priority but if your bandwidth isn't set up correctly it won't work. What are your QoS priorities like?
 
got 3 monitors, when grinding it helps pass the time.

ive got the preset wow to highest and every other option set to medium.

set it to 18mb/s down 1mb/s up with medium getting 5% -45% bandwidth and highest getting 80% to 100%
 
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Firstly, are you over specifying your bandwidth? I've read somewhere that even ASUS recommend over estimating bandwidth e.g if you have 18 then put 20 in.

How are you connected to your router? Are you cabled in? Are you sure it's your WAN connection with the problems not your LAN?
 
here is all my settings.

my speed test with qos turned off (virgin 152mb)

bandwidth settings and priority settings.

and my speed test with qos turned on

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with these settings i just about get hd on netflix but my latency on wow is still 800+, as soon as i pause netflix it drops to 30ish
 
IIRC if you are on 152Mb you have 6Mb upload

Change your upload bandwidth setting to 5Mb (never let it have the max)

and why is the download bandwidth setting 18 put it to 152
 
Never seen QoS work that well on mainstream routers even the N66 - you shouldn't really need it on higher end cable/FTTC packages though - I'm on 80/20 FTTC and can have 1-2 people streaming netflix and play online fine (stable sub 20ms pings) and the only QoS I've got in place is restrictions so that no single application can use more than 90% of the upload bandwidth.
 
dmsims said:
IIRC if you are on 152Mb you have 6Mb upload

Change your upload bandwidth setting to 5Mb (never let it have the max)

and why is the download bandwidth setting 18 put it to 152
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i set it to 18 because i download at 18mb/s i have a 152mbps connection which is different isnt it?

is it not asking for my actual download speed?
 
Rroff said:
Never seen QoS work that well on mainstream routers even the N66 - you shouldn't really need it on higher end cable/FTTC packages though - I'm on 80/20 FTTC and can have 1-2 people streaming netflix and play online fine (stable sub 20ms pings) and the only QoS I've got in place is restrictions so that no single application can use more than 90% of the upload bandwidth.
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This. The only truly consumer level firmware that can offer decent QoS is Tomato, at the expense of everything else in my experience. And certainly not at 150Mbps.

You really don't need QoS at that speed. Turn it off and unless there is something else funky going on, I can guarantee you will have no problems whatsoever.
 
utajoker said:
i set it to 18 because i download at 18mb/s i have a 152mbps connection which is different isnt it?

is it not asking for my actual download speed?
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152Mbps is about 18MBps. Set the download bandwidth to 160 Mbps and the upload to 12Mbps. VM over provision slightly on both download and upload speeds. Or alternatively don't use QoS, you shouldn't really be needing it at the speed you have.
 
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ive turned qos off, when i play netflix my latency jumps to 800-900, when i shut it off it drops back to 30-50. what else can it be.
 
If you're on Virgin 152 then set it for 160. You're trying to over engineer 152mb into 18MB but the Asus router deals in mb not MB.

Are you streaming netflix and playing wow on the same machine? I seem to remember you can prioritise by IP also on the Asus? If you are using different machines, try assigning priority by IP.

Also if you can't go by IP, try changing your rules to tcp/udp rather than just tcp. I don't know wow that well but if it is using UDP then that could be being seconded to medium priority tcp traffic.
 
That router doesn't have enough cpu horsepower for qos over 60mb or so, as enabling qos automatically disables fast-nat or hardware accelerated nat.
 
Steveocee said:
If you're on Virgin 152 then set it for 160. You're trying to over engineer 152mb into 18MB but the Asus router deals in mb not MB.

Are you streaming netflix and playing wow on the same machine? I seem to remember you can prioritise by IP also on the Asus? If you are using different machines, try assigning priority by IP.

Also if you can't go by IP, try changing your rules to tcp/udp rather than just tcp. I don't know wow that well but if it is using UDP then that could be being seconded to medium priority tcp traffic.
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I had a look at WoW network settings and could only see UDP used for chat stuff (bit odd as TCP isn't really a great choice for game data but I guess WoW is fairly low update rate).

Not sure what is up though for the OP as I did a bit of testing with QoS fully off and even 2x HD streams barely had any impact on playing games (don't have WoW to test that though) and ostensibly I have half the downstream. (Having the upstream QoS in place though certainly makes everything smoother though).
 
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