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NH RS300 - QoS
Does the RS300 have a QoS feature? According to the manual for the RS300 I have access to there should be a QoS feature in the router. This is a screenshot of the manual, page 104. I the...
I now see that the manual I found was from May 2024, so that explains the difference. Maybe at some point QoS was a feature, and they removed it from the FW.
My question was whether the RS300 have a QoS feature or not, and now I know for a fact that it doesn't.
I wanted to prioritize some type of traffic due to some latency issues.
This is the situation I want to mitigate:
This is from a computer connected to my RS300 via an extender (EAX15/AX1800), and the latency under load makes video meeting lagging.
It might be the case that I overestimated the RS300 when I bought it, but it looked capable based on the product description.
This is the situation I want to mitigate
Hard to say whether the buffer bloat is in the router or whether it is in the extender (or the backhaul link between them). But I think it's unlikely to be the router.
Is it possible to run this test on a device directly connected to the router? (as plemans also suggested). That would help isolate the problem.
My next try will be a WiFi7 enabled extender when it comes in the formfactor of a wall plug.
Given your overall speeds, powerline would be another possibility. Performance depends on lot on the mains wiring, but AV2 can deliver up to 300 mbps or so.
Is it possible to run this test on a device directly connected to the router? (as plemans also suggested). That would help isolate the problem.
Yes, I just need to bring home a laptop, but then I could try with a cable directly the RS300. As you suggest, it will probably give a good result. My internet access is a 500 Mbps fiber optic, and I measure more than 500 Mbps directly from the router.
Given your overall speeds, powerline would be another possibility. Performance depends on lot on the mains wiring, but AV2 can deliver up to 300 mbps or so.
I've tried some TP-link adapters, but that was a disaster. The beste I got was 1.5 Mbps. It's on different circuits, so from what I understand that's not ideal, but I was not expecting such a bad result - I had my hope in powerline adapter for a while. The electrical wiring is less than five years old, so it should be of good quality.
I've tried some TP-link adapters, but that was a disaster. The beste I got was 1.5 Mbps.
When I tried out powerline (some years ago), I found some outlet pairs that had terrible performance. But not that bad. Were these AV2? Or something older?
If powerline is out, then you could also try a USB WiFi 7 adapter (assuming you are connecting to a PC). You'd connect it directly to the R300 wifi.
- https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/adapters/a9000/
It's on different circuits
Yeah, that is not ideal, especially when the circuits go to different breaker boxes.
Yes, I just need to bring home a laptop, but then I could try with a cable directly the RS300
Obviously do the same test connecting the laptop to the extender ethernet.
Another useful test would be to measure the wifi speed from the gaming location, but connecting to the RS300 instead of the extender. That would be particularly useful if the laptop doesn't support WiFi-7. The extender backhaul link should be about the same speed as the laptop wifi connection, so the test would let you see what the limit is.
Were these AV2?
Yes, brand new - just returned them to the store a week ago.
then you could also try a USB WiFi 7 adapter
The adapter in the PC is a A8000, but the RS300 is too fare away to get a stable signal (hence the extender). It's in a different floor with concrete floor divider.