QOS Applied to an IP range
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:09 pm
Hi,
in an effort to prevent bandwidth-hogging by certain devices on my home network I'm trying to set up QoS as follows:
Assigned static IP addresses to the devices that I want to throttle (chromecasts, Sky HD box, PS3 - essentially the boxes that do the majority of Video streaming/downloading) all within the range 192.168.1.10 -20
Applied 2 QoS policies to this IP address range - one for incoming, one for outgoing limiting to 30% incoming (WAN to LAN) and 15% Outgoing (LAN to WAN).
What I was hoping was that the QoS policy would therefore effectively cap the total throughput of these devices to 30% of my incoming and 15% of my outgoing bandwidth. However, from testing it would appear that the rule effectively caps each device in the range to 30% /15% (hence why the values are set so low!) is this correct?
If so - this is a shame because what I would like to do is set the cap to something more like 75%/50% so that if only one of the devices is streaming it can stream in HD etc, but as more devices in the range start streaming then they contend with each other only for 75%/50% of the total bandwidth, leaving the remaining free for other devices.
By capping each device individually it means that a single device cannot run 'high' if the others are not running and also means that the cap limit needs to be set unreasonably low to have any useful effect (it's now set to 30% so if 3 devices are streaming that's 90% of my bandwidth gone!)
in an effort to prevent bandwidth-hogging by certain devices on my home network I'm trying to set up QoS as follows:
Assigned static IP addresses to the devices that I want to throttle (chromecasts, Sky HD box, PS3 - essentially the boxes that do the majority of Video streaming/downloading) all within the range 192.168.1.10 -20
Applied 2 QoS policies to this IP address range - one for incoming, one for outgoing limiting to 30% incoming (WAN to LAN) and 15% Outgoing (LAN to WAN).
What I was hoping was that the QoS policy would therefore effectively cap the total throughput of these devices to 30% of my incoming and 15% of my outgoing bandwidth. However, from testing it would appear that the rule effectively caps each device in the range to 30% /15% (hence why the values are set so low!) is this correct?
If so - this is a shame because what I would like to do is set the cap to something more like 75%/50% so that if only one of the devices is streaming it can stream in HD etc, but as more devices in the range start streaming then they contend with each other only for 75%/50% of the total bandwidth, leaving the remaining free for other devices.
By capping each device individually it means that a single device cannot run 'high' if the others are not running and also means that the cap limit needs to be set unreasonably low to have any useful effect (it's now set to 30% so if 3 devices are streaming that's 90% of my bandwidth gone!)