Linksys WRT600N QoS Settings

Can someone please explain to me how do I set up QoS on my new WRT600N router? I am quite new at this and not sure what is the best way to configure the QoS on my router to meet my requirements.

I am constantly downloading from the newsgroups from my main pc but I would rather give priority to browsing the web from all the pc's; my pc, family room pc and my wireless laptop. How do I set this up so that normally the newsgroups are getting my full 100% bandwidth but when someone uses the web it automatically slows the newsgroups down so they can get as fast as possible? I am on a 512k speed dsl so I don't have too much bandwidth to spare.

Also does QoS apply to clients connected on wireless or does it work only with wired connections?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

Sorry don't have the WRT600N router but here are the basics.

On your QoS some have a setting for Application awareness. If so, See if your news group app is listed. If it is add a QoS rule that pretains to that application, this defines how the QoS handles will application. For application awareness to work, I think you must have QoS turned on in the Network Properties. Please Note if the application is on all PC it will impact all using that application, unless you specify specific IP address to the rule. Normal bandwidth control does not need the service. In your case you want it to have the lowest priority, or restrict its bandwidth if not both. You will then have to add a FW rule for incoming and assign the IP address to the rule. You could also add a rule that pretains to all of your other pc's, giving them a higher priority that address bandwidth and not application aware. Adding this rule should divide the bandwidth up equally between all of the PC's.

On my Netgear, QoS is called bandwidth profiling.

 

have your main pc on "a" radio and the others on g, n .thstbis the advantage of the 600 , you have 2 seperate radios . give each a different name and setup

 

Thank you for the feedbacks. I am still unable to get the desired results with the WRT600N QOS settings. I have attempted every possible prioritizing scenario to try to get QOS to manage my network internet traffic but nothing seems to work. I have setup QOS at MAC address's levels, IP address's and even at the ports level but still my news client is hogging my full internet bandwidth whenever it is active.

I am starting to feel that the I made the wrong decision by getting the WRT600N over the DIR-655 as D-LINK seems to have a much stronger QOS settings.

 

Contact Linksys support and see what they say. It's possiable that QoS is not working. I know when I activated it in my Netgear router it worked like a champ.

You may need to setup 2 rules. 1 setting the priority the lowest, and the other putting a cap on the bandwidth.