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Busta999
Aspirant
May 22, 2016
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Why is QOS assigning a Low Priority to Speakers/Media Players?

I have AirPlay Speakers set up around the house and bizzarly NightHawk is assigning these with a LOW QOS setting?   The speakers keep dropping out despite an 87% Signal Strength at 54Mbps another o...
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  • Busta999's avatar
    Busta999
    Jun 03, 2016

    Fixed it

     

    everything works great now

     

    returned the NetGear to Amazon bought an Asus

     

     

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aalexandrebeta
Master
Jun 03, 2016

well QoS is something strange when I put low on a device it can suck all my bandwidth, I complained a lot with that stuff!

Back to your business you should update your FW, then you can see what happen.

you did config advanced setup / Admin/ Connected devices/Edit attached device and assign priority and did nothing, there is nothing more you can do until they redesign the QoS feature.

Complain more!

  • Retired_Member's avatar
    Retired_Member
    Jun 03, 2016

    Netgear QOS is HOSED leave it off.

    • Busta999's avatar
      Busta999
      Aspirant
      Jun 03, 2016

      Fixed it

       

      everything works great now

       

      returned the NetGear to Amazon bought an Asus

       

       

      • aalexandrebeta's avatar
        aalexandrebeta
        Master
        Jun 04, 2016

        OK see you in 3 years for the R1300