I'm looking for a router solution to run in a gaming environment with QoS priority queues and am curious what to expect with the Edge Router PoE.
Right now we have a consumer grade TP-Link router which has a somewhat crude "Bandwidth Control" feature. It does work for our application and we can specify rules to guarantee bandwidth on the ports we need for specific machines on the network. But enabling the feature (even with no rules) results in a ~30% decrease in overall bandwidth for all connections going through the router. We have a 120/12Mb connection which drops to 80-95/9 when we turn on the feature.
I've looked at the EdgeOS documentation and it seems like I can setup the kind of QoS we need with an Edge Router device. I would like to have rules that say something like:
UDP packets from local hosts 10.0.0.10.20/25 on ports 15000:52500 going to 69.25.205.241/28 get the highest priority
But I'm curious what to expect in terms of performance impact for other clients on the network - hopefully we can do better than the ~30% througput reduction we are seeing now with the TP-Link. Is an Edge Router PoE a reasonable choice with a 120Mb connection and 5 gaming PCs using ~200Kbps each for high priority UDP traffic?
Right now we have a consumer grade TP-Link router which has a somewhat crude "Bandwidth Control" feature. It does work for our application and we can specify rules to guarantee bandwidth on the ports we need for specific machines on the network. But enabling the feature (even with no rules) results in a ~30% decrease in overall bandwidth for all connections going through the router. We have a 120/12Mb connection which drops to 80-95/9 when we turn on the feature.
I've looked at the EdgeOS documentation and it seems like I can setup the kind of QoS we need with an Edge Router device. I would like to have rules that say something like:
UDP packets from local hosts 10.0.0.10.20/25 on ports 15000:52500 going to 69.25.205.241/28 get the highest priority
But I'm curious what to expect in terms of performance impact for other clients on the network - hopefully we can do better than the ~30% througput reduction we are seeing now with the TP-Link. Is an Edge Router PoE a reasonable choice with a 120Mb connection and 5 gaming PCs using ~200Kbps each for high priority UDP traffic?
Also, I would appreciate any insight people have into how to best setup this kind of QoS. Each gaming client machine uses relatively little bandwidth ~200Kbps but we need to make sure their packets get priority. I know the port range being used as well as the destination IP numbers they will be connecting to. The documentation makes it look like I'll end up doing an Advanced Queue but without the actual device to play with its a little hard to see exactly how to configure it.