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thinksinc
Mar 08, 2018Apprentice
Nighthawl R7800 QoS: Router itself appears as "Low" priority, can't change?
I've been having trouble with LAN speeds, and noticed that the QoS settings on many of my devices were lost and/or reverted back to "Low" or "Medium" settings when I had changed them to "High" or "Hi...
pec967
Mar 11, 2018Luminary
The problems with QoS mentioned in the original post of this thread would appear to have been introduced in firmware version 1.0.2.40. These problems have been reported to Netgear, along with what appears to be similar data entry problems in changing device names. If Netgear ever fixes these bugs, it would be interesting to test QoS with a 1 Gbps ISP service. The R7800 is one of the few routers in the http://smallnetbuilder.com router tests that loses less than 1% of its throughput when features like QoS are enabled (This is the CTF score of 99.4% in the SmallNetBuilder.com router tests).
The only major shortcomings of the R7800 in the SmallNetBuilder.com router tests are the HTTP tests, where the average performance is only ~25% of the max througput of a http server connected to a client with a direct (i.e., no switch) Gigabit Ethernet connection averaged over four file lengths ( i.e., 2KB, 10KB, 108KB, and 759KB) with 2,048 simultaneous http connections. In contrast, newer routers get 60%-68% on these tests. A concrete example probably makes this clearer. When the http server and client are directly connected with Gigabit Ethernet and the file size is 2KB, the combined throughput with 2,048 simultaneous connections is 600 Mbps; whereas, with the R7800 inserted (WAN to LAN) the throughput is only 10% of 600 Mbps or 60 Mbps. For the 759 KB file size, the direct connect throughput is 918 Mbps; whereas with the R7800 inserted the throughput is only 38% of 918 Mbps or 349 Mbps.
I have a 1 Gbps down and 50 Mbps up service from my ISP. I routinely see 920 Mbps down running speedtest.net to my local ISP. Speedtest.net typically uses four simultaneous tcp connections and a large file size. I do not use QoS.