If your wireless router has a setting to enable this, click it on.

Geeky explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11e

Translation: I stumbled upon this option in my router's config program. The default setting is off for some reason. Once I turned it on my connection has improved dramatically. Sustained download speeds are way faster over wireless and I didn't change jack shit on the cable modem.

Try it, you'll like it. :thumbup:

 

werd ive had mine enabled since i got my new dsl.

 

Better speeds with QoS?

Guess you don't really understand what QoS is. QoS is good for people with VoIP and thats it. Or people who live in a house on a shared connection and need a way to throttle a over zealous internet user.

 

Exactly. Maybe someone's stealing your connection and you have no idea it's occuring? Have you checked your router's MAC address memory to see if anyone's hopped on who shouldn't be there? What level of encryption are you using?

QoS is a way to throttle some network services from eating a disproportionate amount of bandwidth, especially if VOIP or videochat services are being used.

 

If someone is stealing your bandwidth then whose the meathead? WPA and mac addy filtering is the best thing to do for a router if it has a wireless AP.

But the problem is not that a person can steal the router is that the person owning the router gets owned because they have no clue of what is happening.

So instead of setting up QoS setup your router properly.

 

:werd: QoS is for limiting traffic, not speeding it up.

If turning on QoS helps, then you've got mucho other problems.

 

The router is running 128-bit WEP (not all the devices connected support WPA). And is set to only allow the 3 MAC addresses I want to connect to it. Nothing else is connected that shouldn't have been.

All I know is when I download something on my laptop it gets more bandwidth with the QoS on than when off. Bandwidth tests show I'm getting about 2.4 Mbit/s with QoS and 1.9 without.

 

it's not limiting traffic. it's prioritizing traffic

 

This is all super mumbo jumbo to me h:

 

true... but if his the only person using the connection at the time.. then qos/prioritizing shouldnt make a difference.