Setting up QoS Options

[HarkinFell]

Hey Monkey

Could you please help me setup up my Router with this QoS. So far it works well, I have two pc's connected to the Router and I can play BF2 while the missus is DL'ing on the laptop. But I want to go one step further and make sure that when I play BF2 it prioritizes that connection. But when it comes to setting it up I'm not too sure what to put. I'll put up a screenshot of the setup page and see if you can fathom it out. I even phoned D-Link up in the UK but I eneded up speaking to an Indian lady that hardly understood what i was trying to do.

[MonkeyFiend]

catachall is probably the easiest - providing you generally want higher priority on one computer than on the other.

The IP that you posted is a 'private IP' - this is the address thats given to individual computers on your network and is not really publically accesssable (so no problems posting it) - I wouldn't post the one that begins in 82.x.x.x.

Yep the protocol should be on ANY (other options are ICMP, TCP, UDP)

The config as I read it basically says the computer witht he internal IP address of 192.168.0.146 gets higher priority for all traffic over the other computer with IP 192.168.0.147

I'd leave the auto classification ticked as this favours game traffic anyway, so shouldn't cause any problems.

In the current setup you'd be prioritizing your own computer over your wifes in general. The auto-classification will go one step further to prioritise different types of data on one computer: If just your computer is on and you are uploading some files by FTP and playing bf2 at the same time (!) then it should prioritise the game traffic.

The only other thing I forgot to mention is that the private IP is usually assigned by your router to any attached computers. If you restart the router it may not assign the same IP to your computer (the 192.168.0.146 address) - which would obviously mess things up.

There should be an option in the router config to manually set the IP of each of the attached computers