Re: Router settings

"Marco Moock" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Am Samstag, 27. August 2022, um 08:04:47 Uhr schrieb SC Tom:
>
>> My larger downloads are mostly games. As you probably know, most
>> games are pretty darn huge any more (whatever happened to DVD's,
>> LOL?), so it takes a good while to DL one. They're legit games, not
>> pirated hack jobs from one of those sites.
>
> Many game downloaders use Bittorrent and that can use UDP. Is there a
> way to limit it the download rate in the game?
> If you have 100 MBit/s down, set it to 95 and you should still be able
> to browse the web on other machines. Also, make sure the upload isn't
> that high, some of the game launchers also upload the files to other
> players.
> If you browse the web with HTTP/HTTPS, TCP is being used that has a
> flow control. It will limit the amount of segments being transmit per
> second if the ACK segments can't go out in realtime.
> So limit the upload in your game launcher too, e.g. to the half of the
> available bandwidth.
>

I found a QoS setting in this router that my old one didn't have. By setting 
it to "Traditional QoS", I can give it an upload and D/L limit. I set the 
U/L to 30Mbs, and the D/L to 100Mbs and everything seems to play nice with 
each other :-) I DL'd a 10Gb file, and all of my other devices had good 
online access to email, games, and the internet. I'll leave it like this and 
see if it lasts.
Thanks for your input. I probably wouldn't have thought of the QoS settings 
if I hadn't followed your advise of limiting the streams. I'll post back in 
about a week with how everything has held up.
Thanks again for your input!