QoS Router

Posts: 45 · Full Forum Member Joined: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 45

Hi,

I'm looking for a router that has QoS. I want to avoid LinkSys because I've had bad luck with them. Any thoughts? I don't use Wireless so I'd like to avoid having the Wi-Fi as an option. Is this even possible?

I'm currently useing a netgear RP614 and love it.

Thank you

If it matters the idea is cable modem --> QoS Router --> MTA

Thanks again

Posts: 4 · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: QOS Router

Either the Xincom XC-DPG502 Dual-WAN 4-Port Router or the Hot Brick LB2 would fit your needs. Both of these units are under $300.00, have QOS and in addition, they both support load balancing via Dual Wan ports, so if you currently have Cable, you can add DSL both to add capacity, or simply as a failover/backup.

Posts: 45 · Full Forum Member Joined: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 45

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look at it.

Thank you,

TC

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 27, 2005 Posts: 2

If you want to play with the tech toys for QoS and have total control, google for openwrt. It's a linksys wireless router that you can install your own firmware to make it a stock linux box. Once that's done, there are a lot of QoS scripts out there to make it all work.

I have this setup and can have my upstream bandwidth pegged, a call comes in or I make a call, and the necessary bandwidth is allocated.

Keep in mind this isn't for everyone, just those who want to play with unix and finely tune bandwidth to your specific needs.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 27, 2005 Posts: 2

If you want to play with the tech toys for QoS and have total control, google for openwrt. It's a linksys wireless router that you can install your own firmware to make it a stock linux box. Once that's done, there are a lot of QoS scripts out there to make it all work.

I have this setup and can have my upstream bandwidth pegged, a call comes in or I make a call, and the necessary bandwidth is allocated.

Keep in mind this isn't for everyone, just those who want to play with unix and finely tune bandwidth to your specific needs.

Posts: 52 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jun 21, 2004 Posts: 52

Travelclarkie:

I too was a Netgear lover ( I miss my netgear... but it is is the silicon space in the sky... I think my wife's demon cat peed on it cause I liked it.)

I reluctantly relaced it with a new Linksys Wrt54gs (on sale) and bought the Svesoft firmware only for the QoS feature. THIS IS NOT A PLUG FOR SVEASOFT, but it has served all my QoS needs (at a little loss of bandwidth) and is providing rock solid communication on my Voip lines.

I must agree with juanfermin - the FireBrick is a great router and decent QoS. I use it in another application, but for home use it was a little pricey for me... although with 2 Motos (3 lines) now in the house I might consider it.

Posts: 4 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:22 am Post subject:

sdstuckey wrote:

Travelclarkie:

I must agree with juanfermin - the FireBrick is a great router and decent QoS. I use it in another application, but for home use it was a little pricey for me... although with 2 Motos (3 lines) now in the house I might consider it.

Actually, I just ordered another Xincom unit for one of my employees (since she's training someone, she now has 2 computers plus 2 Voip lines running off one cable connection so she needed the QOS). At any rate, I picked it up from Page Computers (www.pagecomputers.com) for only $186.00!!! Forget about the DPG402 that they have listed for only $68.88, it's listed as BackOrdered but Xinxom's website says that they don't have any more and they're all gone - Discontinued. At any rate, for $186.00 to have both QOS AND the additional port for failover is fantastic. You might not have 2 WAN connections now, but you might in the future. Anyone who works from home, should definitely have it. In Florida, you can get a backup DSL line for as little as $9.99 for the first 6 Months and after that it's 29.99, or $360.00 a year. I know that I would lose more than that if my Cable goes down for even 1 day a year, so it's a great insurance policy. In the meantime, I get great throughput on my system since the Xincom uses Load Balancing to split up the traffic between the Cable and DSL lines.

Posts: 492 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:51 am Post subject:

Perhaps you know and then maybe you don't, but Linksys has Application-based Qos, Port-based Qos, and Voice Qos. It works for me.

Posts: 4 · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:28 am Post subject: Home QOS Router

It's pretty funny, I was looking around to see if there's been any updates in Home QOS routing, so I did a search on Google and this was the first thing that came up! Pretty funny.