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jesseinla
Aspirant
Jan 17, 2023

QoS Question

I notice when I enable QoS and only I am connected, my speed then lowers from 582Mbps to about 450Mbps. Is the QoS on my RAXE500 — Nighthawk AX12 12-Stream AXE11000 Tri-Band WiFi 6E Router not that i...
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Kitsap
Master
Jan 18, 2023
jesseinla wrote:

I notice when I enable QoS and only I am connected, my speed then lowers from 582Mbps to about 450Mbps. Is the QoS on my RAXE500 — Nighthawk AX12 12-Stream AXE11000 Tri-Band WiFi 6E Router not that intelligent? Also, I noticed when I disable QoS my Ping goes down a few ms. This makes me not want to use QoS. Are they going to improve this in a future Firmware update?

When internet throughput capacities moved past the 200-300 Mbps range, QoS became obsolete.  Turn it off and leave it off.