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cholzer
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Jan 23, 2017
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User submission of application data to get software supported by Dynamic QoS

Dynamic QoS's ability to detect or "know" what an application is used for (i.e. if it is a online multiplayer game) seems to depend on the information present inside the "Performance Optimization Database".

 

The last update to this database was on June 07, 2016. Which means that Dynamic QoS is working with data that is more than half a year old!!!

 

Blizzards highly popular game "Overwatch" is currently not idenitied as game, but as "general traffic"!? Which leads to the issue that Dynamic QoS does not prioritize it's traffic and so I frequently run into high pings during competitive matches when an other application uses up all the bandwidth - makes you wonder why you bought a R7800 to protect you from this when it turns out it does not support recent and highly popular games.

 

And then there is the android OneDrive app which is identfied as "YouTube upload", etc.

 

My suggestion to fix this is:

 

Netgear provides a website where we can submit data from (new) applications, to get included in the "Performance Optimization Database".

The submission should require details like which TCP/UDP ports are used, maybe even a wireshark capture.

 

This can help to fix problems like that Dynamic QoS does not even know that Overwatch is a multiplayer game that needs high priority for it's traffic, or that "OneDrive" is identified as "YouTube upload".

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