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QoS interference
When I enable QoS I get interference with my Logitech H600 wireless earphones. Turn off QoS and everything is fine. I feel like paying such a high price for this router that this should not be an issue. With QoS off my test results on dlsreports.com is an F for bufferbloat aand a D for quality. With QoS on I get an C for bufferbloat and an A for quality. I do notice a better expirience with QoS on but I dont understand why I am suffereing radio interference when it is activated. Anyone else expiriencing this? Any solutions? Thank you for your time.
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It is dslreports.com not dls. Sorry dont know how to edit my post.
That's a new one.
Does the USB port have any effect? Tried a different one?
How fast is your Internet? According to Netgear, and others, QoS is pointless above around 300 Mbps. It actually slows things down because the router's CPU has to work too hard.
Thank you for your reply. I feel that the purchase of this router was an overpriced failure. I have used this router now for several months and it was over promised and has too many real world limitations. Thank you for your time.
- I just bought it and i have 1G up/down with Fios. Does that mean i need to have QoS off?
Christos84 wrote:
I just bought it and i have 1G up/down with Fios. Does that mean i need to have QoS off?Almost certainly yes. It seems to be an old technology that has exceeded its use-by date now that Internet speeds are much faster.
The whole point of QoS is that it lets you prioritise particular applications, so that they can hog all the bandwidth while less important tasks can carry on in the background.
The main uses of QoS seem to be among gamers, many of whom seem to think that they are the only people who should be allowed to user the Internet.
With Gb Internet, even the most frenzied gamer is unlikely to use more than a fraction of that bandwidth.
For QoS to work, your router has to inspect the traffic it sees and prioritise it. This means that the router's processor may actually slow down stuff that wafts through the router.
Some people seem to like to use QoS "because it is there" rather than because they have looked at their traffic and decided that it will help with a particular use. A more sensible approach is to turn it off, and turn it on only if you see that a particular task is running slowly. Even then it would be a good idea to look for other reasons and to test if turning QoS really does deliver benefits of any sort.
