QoS/Traffic Management

[Drezha]

I recently purchased the Synology MR2200ac for the house, as we’ve just moved to Virgin, so I didn’t need the inbuilt modem.

Installed and internet works fine throughout the house on just a single router, so no need to buy another.

One thing I thought I’d have a go with if the traffic management. It’s not something I’ve ever played with before, and to be honest, it soon wont matter to much, as my wife is going back to work from maternity leave, so my work Teams calls won’t be interrupted by streaming!

However, I enabled it on the router and then went to bed. Running Speedtest from the bedroom gave me speeds of 8Mbps, compared to the line speeds of 100Mbps – not really ideal if I can’t stream HD Youtube! Setting the device to higher priority didn’t help me and it maybe increased to 9Mbps. Turning off traffic management lets me get my speedtest results up to 100Mbps again.

Restricting all devices to a fraction of the speed wasn’t what I had in mind – I was hoping I could prioritise traffic, so this seems to be QoS, rather than traffic management? Googling, the Synology site suggests I need to enable application QoS, rather than device limits.  Or was it working as it was supposed to, limiting all devices to a fraction of the total speed- though it seems a bit backwards unless the line was fully used.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Dave Rice]

I’ve tinkered with QoS then ignored it. It’s hard to see that streaming would interfere with Teams with all that bandwidth. Are the devices wireless? That’s probably the issue if they are, hidden nodes.

[Drezha]

To be honest, the streaming isn’t a problem – though I did have my Teams call the other day pause every time I sent an email.

Biggest issue so far has been Epic and EA downloading updates for games – this slows the entire internet and the solution has been to limit the speed in the app itself. I guess it was an app that I can’t, I’d like the router to do it.

So far though, that will have to do.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Dave Rice]

Yes, they will just soak up all they can get their hands on.

Throttling apps at the router end is fraught as all that’s arriving are streams of packets, these have to be opened and analysed and that takes a lot of fast CPU time. Better to try throttling at the PC end, have a look here

I believe you can throttle both EA Origin and Epic in their Settings menus.

[Drezha]

Yeah, Epic and EA are throttled at source now, as well as Battle.net.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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