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QOS issues on Nighthawk RAX80 using VOIP
So I have a RAX80 Nighthawk router. On the Qos screen I see download speed of 90 Mbps, and upload of 12 Mbps (Xfinity Comcast) I have an Ooma VOIP box. I have the Ooma device set to "Prio...
bl1085 wrote:
I see a number of older articles saying that Qos doesn't work well and to simply turn it off, but have not found newer discussions or articles on the subject. Has Netgear fixed Qos, or should I try turning it off? Why does it show priority=Low when I set it to the "highest"?
Not sure what you mean by "fixed".
It would be an easy experiment to disable QoS and see what happens. That is usually the first recommendation when people turn up here complaining about speed issues.
The problem is that QoS and other features, like traffic metering, require the router to "interfere" with the traffic and that strains the processor. So what look like attempts to make things go faster can actually have the opposite effect.
There may not be any newer articles referring to QoS because they were explaining that this is effectively dead technology and people haven't needed that advice recently.
QoS was designed to stop family wars when people were gaming on slow Internet connections. These days most Internet service providers deliver speeds that remove the need to give priority to one service over another. True gaming speed freaks opt for special routers that use the DumaOS operating system.
I have the Ooma device set to "Priority=Highest", and "Connection Type=Wired".Nevertheless people I am talking to on the phone complain of drop-outs.
There's an important gap in the details you provided. How fast is your Internet speed?
VoIP and streaming should not be great bandwidth hogs.
As to the settings on your Ooma device, you'll have to ask Ooma for help with that.