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Re: [Vonage] wrt54g problems with Vonage... Thanks all for advice about upgrading the Moto firmware. Works like a charm now!
My (relatively limited) understanding is that the Linksys firmware supports only upload QOS. I believe that the Sveasoft firmware will do both up and down qos.
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dave |
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barmach
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El Segundo, CA | What will the QOS do for me and how do I set it up? |
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| Routers like the WRT54G can only control QOS on outbound data packets. Your ISP controls how it sends incoming data packets to your router. In the future, there should be a protocol developed that will enable your ISP and your router to communicate in order to coordinate QOS in both directions. However, for now, QOS is a one way street and that's for outbound (or uploading data packets) only.
QOS for outbound only is helpful since most people have limited outbound speeds and very high download speeds. For example, I have 4000/356 on my cable. So my QOS router can control the QOS for the 356 which helps a great deal. It can do nothing for the 4000 down load but since that is so large anyway, most of the time things work fine.
Most people with a good broadband connection with download choppiness have problems with having a poorly run ISP who is either overloaded with customers on their DSL or cable nodes. |
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Actually there are two methods to control incoming packets. One is to change the TCP/IP advertisement window to get the other side to slow down and the second is to drop packets of lower priority services when data comes in too fast.
The Sveasoft Alchemy firmware has both of these. |
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