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Setting up broadband priority on QOS

nmtbarry — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 10:25:09 GMT

Hello!

I am (like many others) working from home, and a lot of my work requires a lot of bandwidth. However I have children in the house who like using the internet on multiple devices at once, which slows our internet to a crawl.

Is there a way to set up bandwidth priority on our wifi so I get the bulk of the speed?

Thanks in advance,

Nathaniel

Re: Setting up broadband priority on QOS

XRaySpeX — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 11:01:46 GMT

Depends on which router you have. You haven't stated which!

Re: Setting up broadband priority on QOS

Landon — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:09:26 GMT

Hey I have the new EE router. (The white one) is it possible the set a bandwidth priority. I have an xbox that's keeps lagging. We have 180 down and 40 up.

Re: Setting up broadband priority on QOS

XRaySpeX — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:55:41 GMT

@Landon : There is no QoS or Bandwidth Control on EE's latest Smart routers. There was on the old Brightboxes.

Re: Setting up broadband priority on QOS

Landon — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:53:40 GMT

Turns out the router I have prioritises the first device that has a heavy bandwidth usage. I queued a download on my xbox and restarted the router it instantly had a faster speed than before and it stopped lagging. Hopes this helps anyone else who had a similar situation it worked for me.

Re: Setting up broadband priority on QOS

Mustrum — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:22:00 GMT

@Landon It does not really help anyone else on the network though, all you have done is kicked them off, or stopped other devices sending/receiving traffic.