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[lotacus]

Never really understood the full capabilities of the QoS function and W.I.S.H because well, I just never had the need to want, to use it. That was of course until people started reporting problems where solutions to try were to enable the QoS funtion.

Being bored one of those days I decided to give the QoS a try and I cannot believe how good it works in my environment.

Rough example, giving a torrent program priority over everything else, well equals a very bad thing as no one gets out on the internet. Even DNS has problems. Give port 80 and 53 priority over a torrent, and browsing is speedy. I used torrenting because it's the biggest bandwidth hog.

So now I give all computers high priority for port 80, 443, 53 and torrents low priority and everything is, as Tony puts it, Grrreat!

I'm certain this would work just as well streaming video within the network. Never tried it though, since it's a pain hooking up the lappy to the tele and configuring everything.

Anyways, along with that. just like to say that my dir-655 has been performing exeptionally well.

[Lycan]

I wish we had more positive posts like this. Glad to hear it's working so well for you.

[gdbr]

Attending to Lycan prayers...

I've never had to adjust QoS and WISH on my DIR-655 A2 just because it has always worked great with its auto settings. I'm a med-heavy torrent user with a 6000/600Kbps cable connection and my network has 2-3 wireless-G computers turned on most of the time; one of them always sharing at uTorrent (with no bandwith restritions), sometimes at eMule too. It's not a head-reeling rig, but in all of those times I was able to browse, SSH, FTP and/or chat and talk over Skype while the router did its job magnificently, even if signal strenght and link rate were not at their top. That's it.

I cannot tell about video streaming because I've never tried. Hope to set something to stream it from the computers over TV, but it's just a plan for now.

[bluenote]

Well, I had to fight tooth and nail to get mine stable and working properly for all the applications that I use it for, but I am now very happy with it and it performs like a champ.  So, in the end, there was a lot of potential that eventually was in fact realized.

[lotacus]

yea, I really like the function now. If someone on the network is hogging the bandwidth, I put their mac in the QoS rules to the lowest priority.

[gdbr]

There's one feature I'd love to see implemented that is a way to control and limit bandwidth straightly, in a percentage basis, for example. But (don't bother answering, dear techies) I think I've already seen some discussion somewhere else that it's not a feature for a SOHO router. Pity. It would be handy.

[CoreDump]

yea, I really like the function now. If someone on the network is hogging the bandwidth, I put their mac in the QoS rules to the lowest priority.

I am wondering how to assign priority based on MAC address?  My old Linksys running DD-WRT allows that.  The 655's QoS rules only take IP addresses.  Am I missing something?

[Lycan]

No your not missing anything. D-Link and Linksys do things differently. We assume that if you want to bind something by it's MAC address you're going to use DHCP Reservation.

[CoreDump]

Thanks Lycan.  Giving that MAC a reserved IP was what I ended up doing.  This is my first D-Link router so I wanna make sure I wasn't missing anything.

[Lycan]

Na, you got it. DHCP reservation is a better way to go anyway.

[lotacus]

ya my bad. it was through DHCP reservation, then used the ip address for QoS.