There’s no service like Quality-of-Service (QoS)
I just got myself another Linksys WRT54G router today (many thanks to CheeV for the help in getting it and the lunch too at Kiwi Express, Sri Hartamas). Promptly installed the latest pre-release 3rd-party firmware by Sveasoft (gotta subscribe for USD 20 per year for the firmware and support), and it’s been great!
Beefed up the wi-fi security, and then enabled the Quality-of-Service (QoS) feature. Now I can smoothly use multiple applications with ease, not worrying about service quality especially when services like Voice over IP (VoIP) is concerned.
All my downloading applications are on a Bulk only priority, where as VoIP and SSH gets Premium priority. As such, the fat pipe (all 4.5mbps of it 
) can be left to download stuff on P2P networks, and when VoIP applications such as Skype is running, Skype will have higher priority on the packets. Now I don’t have to worry about throttling the P2P apps’ connection speed whenever I talk on Skype 
Also, I’m able cap the LAN ports. Hehe, don’t tell my sister that her port is being capped at 256kbps only
Really, there’s no service like QoS!
May 16th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
Hi Auyongtc,
I cant utter any further words seeing ur excessively gigantic download speed. cheers to u…
I’ve bought a linksys wrt54g router too recently ( 2 weeks ago if i can still remember ) and was wondering how do u cap ur sis’s download speed to a minimal amount. My sis downloads alot n it’s bcoming very annoying when it takes 1-2 minutes for u to open up sites like “soccernet.com”.
I did look into the QoS tab on the config page but it doesnt seem to allow me to put in the desired bandwidth speed . I was wondering how did u do it. Can u highlight me on this?
Thanx for your help mate..
cyenxian
May 16th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
The magic 8-ball says “RTFM”