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My R7000 Nighthawk router allocates QoS priority based on MAC address, which means this feature cannot differentiate between devices attached to a WNCE4004 as that passes its own MAC address for all attached devices - and since that is mainly media devices that makes QoS pretty useless.
BTW both devices ARE running the latest firmware versions.
So I can't allocate different QoS levels to the devices attached to an attached WNCE4004 - an Apple TV, a YouView STB and a Panasonic audio system.
I notice that some Apps on my iPhone CAN differentiate between the devices attached to the WNCE4004 (using Bonjour?).
Alternatively I notice that my EX6200 passes a modified MAC address - first 3 bytes of the EX6200 MAC address plus the last 3 bytes of the attached device.
I strongly suggest that this ability to differentiate between devices attached to the WNCE4004 is included into future firmware upgrades of:
1) ALL Netgear routers that implement QoS; and
2) ALL Netgear media focussed devices similar to, and including, the WNCE4004.
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R7000 now supports Dynamic QoS which distinguishes traffic streams and device types more than mac address. You can update to the latest firmware to try it out:
