Re: Router settings

"SC Tom" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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> "Marco Moock" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>> Am Samstag, 27. August 2022, um 08:04:47 Uhr schrieb SC Tom:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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!
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Using the QoS setup allows everyone to access the internet while DL's are 
going on, but it did slow the DL speed somewhat. Not enough to be a bother, 
but still. . . I'd like to have full speed there, too. I can live with it 
though.
Thanks!
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SC Tom